Genus of moths
Polydesma genus ofmoths in the familyErebidae erected byJean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Palpi upturned, where the second joint reaching vertex of head. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with slight basal ridges and tuft of hair. Tibia spineless and more or less hairy. Forewings with somewhat rounded apex. Hindwings with vein 5 arise from above angle of cell. Larva with four pairs of abdominalprolegs , where the first two pairs are rudimentary.[ 4]
Polydesma boarmoides Guenée, 1852 Uganda, South Africa, Indo-Australian Region, Fiji, New Caledonia, HawaiiPolydesma collusoria (Berio, 1954) Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zaire, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, TanzaniaPolydesma erubescens Walker, 1865 Sri LankaPolydesma hildebrandti Viette, 1967 MadagascarPolydesma scriptilis Guenée, 1852 Eritrea, Somalia, Namibia, Bangladesh, East IndiesPolydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833 Mauritania, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Congo, Zaire, Angola, Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, New Caledonia, Australia, Hawaii^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003)."Polydesma " .The Global Lepidoptera Names Index Natural History Museum . RetrievedJuly 1, 2020 . ^ Savela, Markku (June 1, 2020)."Polydesma Boisduval, 1833" .Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . RetrievedJuly 1, 2020 . ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004)."Polydesma Boisduval, 1833" .Butterflies and Moths of the World .Natural History Museum, London . RetrievedJuly 1, 2020 . ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894).The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II
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