''Nycteola poliophaea'' 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 Nolidae first described by George Hampson in 1907. It is found in

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and

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Description

Its forewings are pale gray with zigzag, antemedial and postmedial fasciae. There is a dark tooth visible from the sub-basal which extends to the antemedial. Its larval food plant is '' Eugenia''.

References

Moths of Asia Moths described in 1907 Nolidae {{Nolidae-stub