Lymantria brunneiplaga Swinhoe, 1903 is a animal in the Erebidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Lymantria brunneiplaga Swinhoe, 1903

Lymantria brunneiplaga Swinhoe, 1903

Lymantria brunneiplaga is a moth species found in Sundaland and the Philippines, whose larvae feed on multiple plant genera.

Family
Genus
Lymantria
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Lymantria brunneiplaga Swinhoe, 1903

Lymantria brunneiplaga is a species of moth in the family Erebidae, first formally described by Charles Swinhoe in 1903. This moth occurs in Sundaland and the Philippines. Males of this species have a wingspan of 48 mm, while females have a wingspan ranging from 65 to 75 mm. Recorded host plants for the larvae of Lymantria brunneiplaga include species from the genera Paraserianthes, Combretum, Chromolaena, Mikania, Jacquemontia, Scleria, Cratoxylum, Piper, and Trema; this includes Paraserianthes falcataria, which is also classified as Falcataria moluccana.

Photo: (c) Nikolai Vladimirov, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Nikolai Vladimirov · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Erebidae Lymantria

More from Erebidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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