Polydesma boarmoides (Guenée, 1852) is a animal in the Erebidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Polydesma boarmoides (Guenée, 1852)

Polydesma boarmoides (Guenée, 1852)

Polydesma boarmoides is an Erebidae moth species first described in 1852, found across the Indo-Australian tropics and Pacific islands.

Family
Genus
Polydesma
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Polydesma boarmoides (Guenée, 1852)

Polydesma boarmoides is a species of moth belonging to the family Erebidae. This species was first formally described by Achille Guenée in 1852. Its distribution ranges across the Indo-Australian tropics, extending east from Sri Lanka to Australia, Myanmar, Fiji, and New Caledonia. It has also been documented occurring in the Marianas, Carolines, Society Islands, and Hawaii.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Erebidae Polydesma

More from Erebidae

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

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