| 词条 | Nepita |
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| image = Footman Moth by irvin calicut.jpg | image_caption = Nepita conferta | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Arthropoda | classis = Insecta | ordo = Lepidoptera | familia = Erebidae | subfamilia = Arctiinae | genus = Nepita | genus_authority = Moore, 1860 | species = N. conferta | binomial = Nepita conferta | binomial_authority = (Walker, 1854) | synonyms =
}}Nepita is a monotypic moth genus in the subfamily Arctiinae described by Moore in 1860. Its only species, Nepita conferta, the footman moth, was first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It can be found in India and Sri Lanka.[1][2] DescriptionPalpi porrect (extending forward), extending beyond the frons, and fringed with hair below. Antennae roughly scaled. Tibia with long spurs. Forewings are broad and short. Veins 3 to 5 from close to angle of cell and vein 6 from below upper angle. Veins 7 to 9 stalked and vein 11 anastomosing with vein 12. Hindwings with stalked vein 4 and 5 and 6 and 7. From 8 from beyond middle of cell.[3] Male antennae bipectinated with short branches. Head and thorax orange, where thorax with black spots. Abdomen black, orange below and at extremity. Forewings orange with some black marks at base. Antemedial and medial bands are curved and waved, which coalesce at median nervure. There is a black spot on discocellulars. The post medial band is waved and excurved round end of cell. A series of submarginal spots and streaks present, often conjoined into a band. Margin and cilia are black. Hindwings have orange base, and a broad marginal black band. The spots and streaks differ in each region of the moth survives, where the limbata and ochracea forms have narrow bands on forewings. Forms conferta, aegrota, anila has broad bands on forewings. fusca from Sri Lanka is brown suffused. These difference gave earlier division of the species into many binomials.[4] Larva purplish black and short, swollen in shape. Each somite thickly covered with long black hair tufts. First, seventh and anal somites possess dorsal orange marks. There is a slender line runs from the seventh to the anal somite. EcologyThey are often found in wet, moist habitats and larva mostly feed on mosses and lichen. It is highly adaptable to domestic conditions, caterpillars are found along walls in rainy seasons.[5] References1. ^{{LepIndex |id=36141 |name=Asura conferta}} {{Commons}}{{Wikispecies}}2. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/319616009 | title=Footman Moth | website=Project Noah | accessdate=31 July 2016}} 3. ^{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}} 4. ^{{cite web | url=http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/268591 | title=Nepita conferta Walker (1854) |website=India Biodiversity Portal | accessdate=31 July 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.nbair.res.in/insectpests/Nepita-conferta.php | title=Nepita conferta (Walker) |website=Insects in Indian Agroecosystems | publisher=ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources | accessdate=31 July 2016}}
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