Micraloa lineola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Micraloa
Species:
M. lineola
Binomial name
Micraloa lineola
(Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms
  • Bombyx lineola Fabricius, 1793
  • Aloa lineola (Fabricius, 1793)
  • Micraloa lineola
  • Spilosoma punctistriga Walker, 1855
  • Aloa candidula Walker, 1855
  • Aloa diminuta Walker, 1855
  • Spilosoma strigata Walker, 1869
  • Creatonotus rubricosta Moore, 1872
  • Aloa insolata Swinhoe, 1889
  • Diacrisia felderi Rothschild, 1910
  • Estigmene octomaculata Rothschild, 1933

Micraloa lineola is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793. It is found in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.[1]

In, The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II, the species is described with Micraloa emittens, as follows:

Antennae of male bipectinate, serrate in female. Head and thorax pinkish ochreous. Abdomen crimson above with series of dorsal and lateral black spots. Fore wing pinkish ochreous. A black fascia below median nervure from before the middle of cell to some way beyond its lower angle, the veins crossing it pale; a black sunmarginal streak above vein 5. Hind wing whitish, some specimens with a black spots at end of cell. The S.Indian and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) forms emittens and flora are much suffused with pink than the Northern forms; in the former the markings of the fore wing are prominent, in the latter obsolete or only developed at end of cell. Of the Northern forms, diminutus has the markings prominent; candidulus narrow or almost obsolete; puntistriga with a speck at end of cell and streak above vein 5 only.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Aloa lineola (Fabricius, 1793)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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