Neoploca

Neoploca is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Thyatirinae of the Drepanidae. It was first described by Shōnen Matsumura in 1927. It contains only one species, Neoploca arctipennis, first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878, which is found in Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East and China (Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Jiangsu).[1]

Neoploca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Drepanidae
Genus:	Neoploca Matsumura, 1927
Species:	N. arctipennis
Binomial name
Neoploca arctipennis (Butler, 1878)
Synonyms
Xylina arctipennis Butler, 1878 Asphalia nigrofascicula Graesser, 1888 Polyploca arctipennis ab. innotata Warren, in Seitz 1912 Neoploca misaona Matsumura, 1933

The wingspan is 35–38 mm.[2] The forewings are silvery grey, the base, a central irregular black edged band, a transverse discal stripe and the outer border are rather paler and greyer than the rest of the wing. There is a black dot at the interior angle of the cell, a disco-submarginal series, a series of marginal black lunules and a short oblique black apical line. The hindwings are shining sordid white, with a broad, pale brown external border.[3]

The larvae feed on Quercus mongolica.[4]

References

1. Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID 25947492.
2. Japanese Moths
3. Butler, Arthur Gardiner (1879). Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum. 3. pp. 17–18 – via Internet Archive.
4. A review of the Thyatirin-moths (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: Thyatirinae) of the Russian Far East

• Butler, 1878, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1: 198
• Laszlo, Gy. M.; G. Ronkay; L. Ronkay & T. Witt, 2007, Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Band 13: 1-683