Gadirtha impingens

Gadirtha impingens
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nolidae
Genus:	Gadirtha
Species:	G. impingens
Binomial name
Gadirtha impingens Walker, [1858]
Synonyms
Iscadia impingens Scolopocneme bufonia C. & R. Felder, 1862 Gadirtha inexacta ab. uniformis Warren, 1913 Gadirtha uniformis Sugi, 1982 Checupa tinctoides Snellen, 1877 Gadirtha inexacta buruensis Prout, 1926 Gadirtha inexacta ab. papuensis Warren, 1913 Gadirtha guineana Swinhoe, 1918 Gadirtha papuensis Gaede, 1937

Gadirtha impingens is a moth of the Nolidae family. It is found from northern India and southern China to Queensland, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands, as well in Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima).^[1] The habitat consists of lowland areas up to 2,600 meters, but it is most frequent at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 meters.^[2]

The larvae feed on Sapium and Stillingia species.^[3]

Subspecies

• Gadirtha impingens impingens
• Gadirtha impingens guineana Swinhoe, 1918 (New Guinea)
• Gadirtha impingens tinctoides Snellen, 1877 (Sundaland to the Moluccas)
• Gadirtha impingens uniformis Sugi, 1982 (north-eastern Himalaya)

References

1. A new species of Gadirtha Walker (Nolidae, Eligminae): a proposed biological control agent of Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera (L.) Small) (Euphorbiaceae) in the United States
2. The Moths of Borneo
3. Gadirtha at funet