Lymantria marginata

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| taxon = Lymantria marginata

| authority = Walker, 1855

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• Lymantria pusilla Felder, 1874
• Liparis marginata Swinhoe, 1923

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Lymantria marginata is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855.{{cite web |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017/details/species/id/a074f106a799409d913fbbef4d8e2584 |title=Species Details: Lymantria marginata Walker, 1855 |website=Catalogue of Life |accessdate=7 March 2018}} It is found in India, Bangladesh,{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/lymantriidae/lymantria/#marginata |title=Lymantria marginata Walker, 1855 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=10 October 2018}} Sri Lanka{{cite journal |last1=Koçak |first1=Ahmet Ömer |last2=Kemal |first2=Muhabbet |date=20 February 2012 |url=https://www.academia.edu/1782757 |title=Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka |journal=Cesa News |issue=79 |pages=1–57 |via=Academia}} and Thailand.{{cite web |url=http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/02_EREBIDAE/01_LYMANTRIINAE/01_Lymantria/Lymantria%20marginata/Lymantria%20marginata.htm |title=Lymantria marginata Walker |website=Digital Moths of Japan|accessdate=7 March 2018}}

The wingspan of the male is 41 mm and the female is about 52 mm. Palpi porrect (extending forward) and hairy. Sexes show sexual dimorphism. Antennae of male bipectinate (comb like on both sides) with long branches and female has pectinate (comb like on one side) antennae. Male with head and thorax pale fuscous with black spots. There is a line which runs behind the head. Head yellowish. Two orange spots found on mesothorax. Female has white forewings with black patches. Abdomen orange with a black line on vertex. Anal tuft black. The caterpillar is a serious pest on Mangifera indica{{cite web |url=http://www.actahort.org/books/231/231_21.htm |title=Biology of Two Defoliator Pests of Mango Under North Indian Conditions |publisher=International Symposium on Mango |accessdate=7 March 2018}} and Durio zibethinus.{{cite web |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/list.dsml?searchpageurl=browse.dsml&sort=family&beginIndex=46920&family=copromorphidae& |title=HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants |publisher=The Natural History Museum |accessdate=7 March 2018}}