Polydesma
Sign in to savePolydesma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833.
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Vinony files it under LepIndex ID same as Wikidata, Moth genera and Pandesmini.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 22
- Family
- Erebidae
- Collections
- YPM, NMV
- Recorded in
- Kenya, Seychelles, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Polydesma umbricola (Boisduval, 1833).jpg
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- taxon name
- Polydesma
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Polydesma
- Commons category
- Polydesma
- taxonomic type
- Polydesma umbricola
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Encyclopedic overview
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Polydesma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833.
==Description== 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 abdominal prolegs, where the first two pairs are rudimentary.
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