| Micraloa lineola | |
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| Species: | M. lineola
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| Micraloa lineola (Fabricius, 1793)
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Micraloa lineola is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by Fabricius in 1793. It is found in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Burma.[1]
In, The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-II, the species described with Micraloa emittens, as follows:
"Antennae of male bipectinate, serrate in female. Head and thorax pinkish ochreous. Abdomen crimson above with series of dorsal and lateral black spots. Fore wing pinkish ochreous. A black fascia below median nervure from before the middle of cell to some way beyond its lower angle, the veins crossing it pale; a black sunmarginal streak above vein 5. Hind wing whitish, some specimens with a black spots at end of cell. The S.Indian and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) forms emittens and flora are much suffused with pink than the Northern forms; in the former the markings of the fore wing are prominent, in the latter obsolete or only developed at end of cell. Of the Northern forms, diminutus has the markings prominent; candidulus narrow or almost obsolete; puntistriga with a speck at end of cell and streak above vein 5 only."
—The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-II.[2]