''Lymantica polycyma'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family Erebidae. It is found in eastern

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. This species looks similar to '' Lymantica malgassica'' (Kenrick, 1914) but smaller, with shorter antennae and no trace of pink in the body, wings and legs and with very distinctive genitalia. The length of the males is and of the females .Collenette, 1936, ''New Lymantriidae from Madagascar'', Novitates Zoologicae XL., 1936, pages 153-169, Plate 12, fig.41

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Lymantriinae Moths described in 1936 Moths of Madagascar Moths of Africa {{Lymantriidae-stub