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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Nymphula |
| Species: | N. nitidulata
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| Nymphula nitidulata | |
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Nymphula nitidulata, the beautiful china-mark, is a species of moth of the family Crambidae described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767. It is found in Europe, Japan (Hokkaido), Turkey, Armenia, Russia (including Ural, Siberia, Amur) and China.[2]
The wingspan is 20–25 mm. The forewings are white; costal edge and sometimes a subcostal line dark fuscous ; a curved dark fuscous subbasal line ; lines and transverse discal spots strongly outlined with dark fuscous, sometimes partly brownish, first curved, second indented below middle, connected by a prolongation with discal spot and first line, lines sometimes also connected on dorsum; a yellow-ochreous dark-margined terminal streak. Hindwings as forewings, but lines narrower, not connected, subbasal absent, discal mark oblique, narrow, dark fuscous, usually touching first line The larva is bright yellow or brownish-yellow ; dorsalline dark brownish ; head pale brown.[3]
The larvae feed on Sparganium and Nuphar lutea.
- ^ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ^ Yoshiyasu, Y. 1985: A systematic study of the Nymphulinae and the Musotiminae of Japan (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Scientific Reports of the Kyoto Prefectural University Agriculture, Kyoto 37: 1–162.
- ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf
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