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Observation_301504
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Nycteola indicatana (Walker, 1863)
Decribed as Tortrix indicatana by Walker (1863), https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso2728brit#page/333/mode/1up
Described as Gyrtothripa microdonta by Hampson (1912), https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid11brituoft/page/449/mode/1up
Fig. 13 here, https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid02briti?view=theater#page/n60/mode/2up
Synonymised under Nycteola indicatana in MoB, https://www.mothsofborneo.com/species/nycteola-indicatana
Macthing with iNat obs. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/186044103
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105672000
SS: Agree with ID. Close to mesoplaga.
https://www.mothsofborneo.com/species/nycteola-indicatana
From MOB: This species (mesoplaga) and the next (indicatana) (previously placed in Symitha) have a rather similar forewing pattern with a dark subbasal bar and central triangle on the costa amid otherwise irregularly transverse dark grey fasciation on a pale grey ground. The subbasal bar in mesoplaga is well basal to the antemedial, which is transverse, rather than longer and more oblique around the antemedial. Also, mesoplaga is much larger, and has grey shading between the fasciae broadly along the dorsum.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/371549-Nycteola-indicatana
Decribed as Tortrix indicatana by Walker (1863), https://archive.org/stream/listofspecimenso2728brit#page/333/mode/1up
Described as Gyrtothripa microdonta by Hampson (1912), https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid11brituoft/page/449/mode/1up
Fig. 13 here, https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid02briti?view=theater#page/n60/mode/2up
Synonymised under Nycteola indicatana in MoB, https://www.mothsofborneo.com/species/nycteola-indicatana
Macthing with iNat obs. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/186044103
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105672000
SS: Agree with ID. Close to mesoplaga.
https://www.mothsofborneo.com/species/nycteola-indicatana
From MOB: This species (mesoplaga) and the next (indicatana) (previously placed in Symitha) have a rather similar forewing pattern with a dark subbasal bar and central triangle on the costa amid otherwise irregularly transverse dark grey fasciation on a pale grey ground. The subbasal bar in mesoplaga is well basal to the antemedial, which is transverse, rather than longer and more oblique around the antemedial. Also, mesoplaga is much larger, and has grey shading between the fasciae broadly along the dorsum.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/371549-Nycteola-indicatana