page_title: List of moths of Sri Lanka
section_title: Lacturidae - tropical burnet moths
hierarchical_section_title: List of moths of Sri Lanka / Checklist of species / Lacturidae - tropical burnet moths
caption_attribution_description: English: Moth sp. in Bakamuna, Sri Lanka - 3
context_page_description: Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions of the world. There are about 2 million species of arthropods found in the world, and still it is counting. So many new species are discover up to this time also. So it is very complicated and difficult to summarize the exact number of species found within a certain region.
  The following is an incomplete list of the moths of Sri Lanka.
context_section_description: Anticrates chrysantha Mehrick, 1905
  Pyrozela xanthomima Meyrick, 1906
caption: Polydesma boarmoides
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