''Parapoynx fluctuosalis'' or Fluctuating China-mark or Waved China-mark, is a
moth of the family
Crambidae. It is a widespread species, known from Africa,
India,
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 ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
,
Malaysia,
Taiwan,
Guam,
Hawaii,
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
,
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
and the
Galápagos Islands. It is also an
introduced species in Europe, where it has been recorded from
Great Britain, the
Iberian Peninsula and
Sardinia.
Adults are
sexually dimorphic, with a variable colouration of the wings.
[, 2006, "The Acentropinae and Musotiminae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador". ''Zootaxa''. 1354: 45-56.]
Subspecies
*''Parapoynx fluctuosalis fluctuosalis'' (Africa)
*''Parapoynx fluctuosalis linealis''
Guenée, 1854 (Asia)
References
External links
*
''Parapoynx fluctuosalis'' ''CSIRO - Australian Moths Online''. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
Acentropinae
Lepidoptera of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Moths of Japan
Moths of Europe
Moths of Africa
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