Nyctemera baulus (Boisduval, 1832)

Bolotov, Ivan N., Kondakov, Alexander V. & Spitsyn, Vitaly M., 2018, A review of tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini) from Flores Island, Lesser Sunda Archipelago, with description of a new species and new subspecies, Ecologica Montenegrina 16, pp. 1-15 : 8

Nyctemera baulus (Boisduval, 1832)

Figs. 2 E-2F, 5A-5B

Material examined. INDONESIA, Lesser Sundas, East Nusa Tenggara, Flores Island: Sano Ngoang Lake, geothermal site, primary mountain rainforest , 8º43’1”S, 120 º0’10”E, 23 January 2015, 1♀, Bolotov leg. ( RMBH, voucher no. SPH0721 ); Labuan Bajo, garden and native grassland on the seacoast , 8º31’21”S, 119º52’16”N, 13-20 January 2015, 2♂, Bolotov leg. ( RMBH, voucher nos. SPH0719 and SPH0720 ) .

Distribution: Widespread from Sundaland to North Australia and Samoa ( Table 1 ).

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Figure 2. Examples of Arctiini species from Flores Island, Lesser Sundas, Indonesia: A) Euchromia horsfieldi (Moore, 1859), ♀ (Sph0723); B) Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907, ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0717); C) Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773), ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0694); D) A. astreus, ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0693); E) Nyctemera baulus (Boisduval, 1832), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0720); F) N. baulus, ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0721); G) Creatonotos gangis (Linnaeus, 1763), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0595); H) Lemyra maculifascia (Walker, 1855), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0722). Scale bar: 10 mm. Photos: Vitaly M. Spitsyn.