Scriptoplusia nigriluna

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| taxon = Scriptoplusia nigriluna

| authority = (Walker, [1858])

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• Plusia nigriluna Walker, [1858]
• Argyrogramma hokowensis I. Chou & T. Lu, 1979
• Scriptoplusia kuznetzovi Klyuchko & L. Ronkay, 1990
• Plusia didymospila Turner, 1933

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Scriptoplusia nigriluna is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1858.{{cite web |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/0ed81eac6f8d232ab1c7f26b2753ed2e |title=Species Details: Scriptoplusia nigriluna Walker, 1857 |website=Catalogue of Life |access-date=29 May 2018}} It is found throughout the Oriental tropics of India, 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 |publisher=Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara |issue=79 |pages=1–57 |via=Academia}} Bangladesh, Japan{{cite web |url=http://www.jpmoth.org/Noctuidae/Plusiinae/Scriptoplusia_nigriluna.html |title=クロガネキンウワバ Scriptoplusia nigriluna (Walker, [1858]) |website=Digital Moths of Japan|access-date=28 March 2018}} and the South East Asian region.

Two subspecies are known - Scriptoplusia nigriluna nigriluna and Scriptoplusia nigriluna noona. Larval host plants include Acalypha species.{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/plusiinae/scriptoplusia/#nigriluna |title=Scriptoplusia nigriluna (Walker, [1858]) |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |access-date=15 October 2018}}