Peridrome orbicularis Walker, 1854 is a animal in the Erebidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Peridrome orbicularis Walker, 1854

Peridrome orbicularis Walker, 1854

Peridrome orbicularis is an Erebidae moth found across South and Southeast Asia, with distinct male and female wingspans, and larvae that feed on Apocynaceae.

Family
Genus
Peridrome
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Peridrome orbicularis Walker, 1854

Peridrome orbicularis (Walker, 1854) is a moth species that belongs to the family Erebidae. This species is distributed in the following locations: Bangladesh (Silhet), Cambodia, India (Andaman Islands, Assam, and Meghalaya), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Sumbawa, Sulawesi, and Borneo), Laos, Malaysia (Pinang), Myanmar, the Philippines (Luzon, Palawan, Mindanao, and Mindoro), Thailand, and Vietnam. For adult moths of this species, males have a wingspan of approximately 67 mm, while females have a wingspan of approximately 71 mm. Larvae of this species have been documented feeding on plants belonging to the Apocynaceae family.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Erebidae Peridrome

More from Erebidae

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

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