Polynesia sunandava

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| image_caption = in Sri Lanka

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| taxon = Polynesia sunandava

| authority = (Walker, 1861){{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82846838 |title=Polynesia sunandava (Walker 1861) |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802011339/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82846838 |archive-date=August 2, 2018 |accessdate=August 1, 2018}}

| synonyms =

Pomasia sunandava Walker, 1861
Cambogia aeriferata Walker, 1863

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Polynesia sunandava is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka and India, as well as on Peninsular Malaysia, Sumbawa, Larat (part of the Tanimbar Islands) and in New Guinea.[http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-10/eupitheciini/eupitheciini_35.php The Moths of Borneo]

Description

Its wingspan is about 26 mm. Forewings with non-truncate apex. Body bright yellow. Head marked with rufous. Shaft of antennae whitish. Tegulae with rufous patches irrorated with silvery scales. Wings with rufous-edged silver spots in very ill-defined series, those below the costa of forewings forming a very ill-defined fascia.{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1895 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180173#page/3/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma |volume=Moths Volume III |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}} {{PD-notice}}

References

External links

[http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/spix35_1_06.pdf Australian moths]

Category:Moths described in 1861

Category:Asthenini