Ophisma gravata

Ophisma gravata
Ophisma gravata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Ophisma
Species: O. gravata
Binomial name
Ophisma gravata
Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
  • Ophisma pallens (Lucas, 1893)
  • Grammodes pallens Lucas, 1892

Ophisma gravata [1] is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to Okinawa, the Caroline Islands, New Guinea, eastern Australia and New Caledonia.

The larvae feed on Polygonum species.

Subspecies

  • Ophisma gravata gravata
  • Ophisma gravata pallens (eastern Australia and New Caledonia)

References

  1. ^ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae. CRC Press. ISBN 0916846458, ISBN 978-0916846459.

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