Calliteara Nandarivatu
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''Calliteara nandarivatu'' is a
moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
of the subfamily
Lymantriinae The Lymantriinae (formerly called the Lymantriidae) are a subfamily of moths of the family Erebidae. The taxon was erected by George Hampson in 1893. Many of its component species are referred to as "tussock moths" of one sort or another. The ca ...
. It was described by Robinson in 1968. It is found on
Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...
.Robinson, G.S. (1968) Some new species of Lepidoptera from the Fiji Islands. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 80: 249–255.


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Moths described in 1968 Lymantriinae Moths of Fiji {{Lymantriidae-stub