Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) of the British Indian Ocean Territory

This is a guide to the Lepidoptera of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The species listed here are primarily those recorded in the Zoological Society London checklist. Additional species have been added from surveys collected through a Darwin Plus project (DPLUS151). This list is not ...more ↓

Characoma nilotica

The Black-olive Caterpillar or Bungee Caterpillar (Garella nilotica) is a moth of the Nolidae family. 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 Galapagos Islands and the Chagos Archipelago.

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