''Chiasmia nora'' is a

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in the family

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, described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in northern

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

, south-eastern Asia and probably throughout

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Description

Its wingspan is about 42 mm. Forewings with outer margin slightly angled at vein 4. Male with dilated hind tibia. Very similar to '' Semiothisa eleonora'', differs from black suffusion especially beyond the medial band of both wings. Forewings with a black speck at the end of the cell. Hindwings with black patches beyond the band more numerous. A white patch found on the outer area below vein 4. Larva greenish, with light, dull yellow longitudinal bands. Larvae have been reared on ''

Acacia ''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...

'' species. Males are known to feed from mammalian body fluids. It was observed to drink the droplets exuded from the anus of a

mosquito Mosquitoes (or mosquitos) are members of a group of almost 3,600 species of small flies within the family Culicidae (from the Latin ''culex'' meaning " gnat"). The word "mosquito" (formed by ''mosca'' and diminutive ''-ito'') is Spanish for "li ...

while it was sucking blood from a water buffalo.

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* Macariini {{Macariini-stub