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Epipsestis albidisca

Synonyms: Palimpsestis albidisca; Polyploca albidisca; Polyploca polychromata

Wikipedia Abstract

Epipsestis albidisca is a moth in the Drepanidae family. It is found in western India (Berham Gully, Kangra), Sikkim, Nepal, Pakistan, China (Yunnan, Tibet) and Vietnam. The wingspan is about 34 mm. The forewings are greyish white, with a greenish tinge. The extreme base is blackish, with a tuft of raised white scales, followed by a pale grey sinuous band, indistinctly traversed by a darker central line, then a dark-edged darker sinuous fascia, also traversed by an indistinctly darker line. The external angle of this fascia below the costa is marked by a short vertical black dash of raised scales, representing the orbicular stigma, followed by a similar, but longer, black dash, slightly inclined to the former, representing the reniform stigma. Each of these black dashes is also edged with
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0