Nothoploca nigripunctata

Nothoploca nigripunctata is a moth in the family Drepanidae.[1] It is found in India, Vietnam, Korea, China and the Russian Far East.[2]

Nothoploca nigripunctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Drepanidae
Genus:	Nothoploca
Species:	N. nigripunctata
Binomial name
Nothoploca nigripunctata (Warren, 1915)
Synonyms
Polyploca nigripunctata Warren, 1915

The wingspan is about 32 mm. The forewings are bluish white speckled with pale grey, the inner and outer bands and the terminal area tinged with brownish. The inner line is black, waved and runs from two-fifths of the costa to near the middle of the inner margin. It is preceded by three thick waved dark lines filled in with brown and there is a dark spot near the base of the submedian fold, followed by a black pointed dash. The basal area is limited by a curved dark line and the outer line is black, double, vertical at the costa, then excurved to vein 2 and again to vein 1, approaching the inner line on the inner margin. There is a pale and dark grey dentate line beyond and the subterminal line is white, defined by the dark terminal area beyond, and an oblique black streak from the apex. There is also a black terminal festoon. The hindwings are dull fuscous.[3]

Subspecies

• Nothoploca nigripunctata nigripunctata (India: Sikkim)
• Nothoploca nigripunctata fansipana Laszlo, G.Ronkay, L.Ronkay & Witt, 2007 (Vietnam, China: Gansu, Sichuan)
• Nothoploca nigripunctata zolotarenkoi Dubatolov, 1987 (Russian Far East, Korea, China: Shaanxi, Yunnan)

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Polyploca nigripunctata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
2. A review of the Thyatirin-moths (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: Thyatirinae) of the Russian Far East
3. Novit. zool. 22 (1): 157