Polydesma

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Erebinae
Tribus: Pandesmini
Genus: Polydesma
Species: P. prasina – P. pratti
Name

Polydesma Boisduval, 1833

Type species: Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833 by subsequent designation by Desmarest, 1857

Polydesma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833.[1][2][3]
Description

Palpi upturned, where the second joint reaching vertex of head. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with slight basal ridges and tuft of hair. Tibia spineless and more or less hairy. Forewings with somewhat rounded apex. Hindwings with vein 5 arise from above angle of cell. Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, where the first two pairs are rudimentary.[4]
Species

Polydesma boarmoides Guenée, 1852 Uganda, South Africa, Indo-Australian Region, Fiji, New Caledonia, Hawaii
Polydesma collusoria (Berio, 1954) Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zaire, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania
Polydesma erubescens Walker, 1865 Sri Lanka
Polydesma hildebrandti Viette, 1967 Madagascar
Polydesma scriptilis Guenée, 1852 Eritrea, Somalia, Namibia, Bangladesh, East Indies
Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833 Mauritania, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Congo, Zaire, Angola, Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, New Caledonia, Australia, Hawaii

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Polydesma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
Savela, Markku (June 1, 2020). "Polydesma Boisduval, 1833". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Polydesma Boisduval, 1833". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.