Platyptilia cacaliae
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Platyptilia cacaliae is a moth
of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in India
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The head is greyish-fuscous and the antennae are greyish, obscurely ringed with fuscous. The thorax is greyish-fuscous and the legs are whitish. The abdomen is greyish, irrorated with fuscous. The forewings are brownish-grey irrorated with white and reddish-brown. The hindwings are fuscous-grey, irrorated with fuscous-brown.
Adults have been found flying over flowers of Cacalia coccinea. The larvae and pupae were found in the flower-heads.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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The head is greyish-fuscous and the antennae are greyish, obscurely ringed with fuscous. The thorax is greyish-fuscous and the legs are whitish. The abdomen is greyish, irrorated with fuscous. The forewings are brownish-grey irrorated with white and reddish-brown. The hindwings are fuscous-grey, irrorated with fuscous-brown.
Adults have been found flying over flowers of Cacalia coccinea. The larvae and pupae were found in the flower-heads.