''Cerura liturata'' is a

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of the family

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described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found from the Oriental tropics of

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Description

It is a pure white moth. Palpi are black. Collar and thorax spotted with black. Abdomen may be banded or completely suffused with black, leaving a white patch with a black semicircular mark on the last abdominal segment. Forewings with two waved sub-basal lines from the costa to median nervure, some black spots below the median nervure. A highly waved antemedial band, three waved postmedial lines and a waved medial line present. There is a black line on discocellulars surrounded by a black ring mark. Hindwings are more or less suffused with fuscous. There are two indistinct medial lines and a series of marginal black spots. The larvae feed on '' Flacourtiaceae'', ''

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References

{{Taxonbar , from=Q5065306 Notodontidae Moths of Asia Moths described in 1855