''Sesquiluna albilunata'' is a

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in the family

Endromidae Endromidae is a family of moths. It was long considered to be a monotypic family, containing just one species, the Kentish glory, '' Endromis versicolora'', found throughout the Palaearctic regio The family now consists of several genera and abou ...

first described by George Hampson in 1910. It is found in

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

, India. The

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is about 40 mm for males and 46 mm for females. The forewings are dark red brown mixed with grey and with a deeper red-brown antemedial band defined by greyish on the inner side and with slightly waved edges, oblique from the costa to the submedian fold. There is an indistinct brown discoidal bar with a grey line in the centre and a waved brownish medial line and waved grey postmedial line with a somewhat deeper brown band between them. There are also small obliquely placed subapical white lunules below veins seven and six with a reddish tinge beyond them. The hindwings are red brown with a greyish tinge. There is a small brown discoidal spot and chocolate brown spots on the inner margin before and beyond the middle, with greyish marks beyond them. The larvae feed

gregarious Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies. Sociality is a survival response to evolutionary pressures. For example, when a mother wasp ...

ly on '' Cudrania javanicus''. They are dull black dusted with grey and with a pale yellow dorsal line and orange subdorsal and lateral lines, as well as two yellow ventral lines. There are broad yellow patches between the prolegs and the head is black.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 20 (1): 83
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Moths described in 1910 Sesquiluna {{Bombycoidea-stub