Garella nilotica

Garella nilotica, the black-olive caterpillar or bungee caterpillar, is a moth of the family Nolidae. It was described by Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1881. It has a pantropical distribution, including the eastern North America (from Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New York south to Florida and Texas), the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, Australia, Guam, Fiji, Samoa, the Galápagos Islands and the Chagos Archipelago.

Garella nilotica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Nolidae
Genus:	Garella
Species:	G. nilotica
Binomial name
Garella nilotica (Rogenhofer, 1881)
Synonyms
Sarrothripus nilotica Rogenhofer, 1882 Characoma nilotica Paraxia chamaeleon Möschler, 1890 Clettharra littora Bethune-Baker, 1894 Thalpochares laurea H. Druce, 1898 Nycteola proteella Dyar, 1898 Characoma nilotica nigronotata Warren, 1913 Characoma nilotica macula Warren, 1913 Characoma nilotica basibrunnea Warren, 1913 Characoma albifascia Draudt, 1935

The wingspan is about 15 mm.

The larvae feed on various trees and shrubs in at least five families of broad-leaved plants, including Cynometra, Heritiera, Mangifera, Terminalia, Rhododendron, Bucida (including Bucida buceras), Canocarpus, Olea, Prunus, Salix and Tamarix species.

External links

• Barnett, L. K.; Emms, C. W. & Holloway, J. D. (July 1, 1999). "The moths of the Chagos Archipelago with notes on their biogeography". Journal of Natural History. 33 (7): 1021–1038. Bibcode:1999JNatH..33.1021B. doi:10.1080/002229399300065.
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