Marbled white moth
The marbled white moth has dark wings with big white patches, like marble. It lives in warm parts of Asia and on islands all the way to New Guinea. Its caterpillar is purple and hairy.
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Fun facts
The male has a big tuft of hair growing from each front leg.
Its caterpillar is purple and hairy, with short white streaks on its sides and back.
The pupa is yellowish with black spots.
There are four kinds of it living in different places. The one from Sri Lanka has black veins on its back wings.
Most asked questions about Marbled white moth
?Where does the marbled white moth live?
In warm parts of Asia, from India to the Philippines and Japan, and as far as Papua New Guinea.
?What does the marbled white moth caterpillar look like?
It is purple and hairy, with a yellowish front and little white streaks.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nyctemera coleta
- Named by
- Stoll, 1782
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Arctiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Arctiidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- White tiger moth
Where the facts come from
- Nyctemera coleta (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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