Summary ²

Orgyia postica, the cocoa tussock moth or hevea tussock moth, is a species of moth of the Lymantriinae subfamily of family Erebidae found from the Oriental tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Borneo, Java, New Guinea and Taiwan. It was described by Francis Walker in 1855.

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