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Lymantria detersa
Lymantria detersa is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in India.
The caterpillar feeds on Casuarina equisetifolia.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 630871.