{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Polydesma | image = Polydesma umbricola (Boisduval, 1833).jpg | authority = Boisduval, 1833 | synonyms = *''Anthemoisia'' <small>Blanchard, 1840</small> *''Anthemoessa'' <small>Agassiz, [1847]</small> *''Anodapha'' <small>Moore, [1885]</small> *''Trichopolydesma'' <small>Berio, 1954</small> }}
'''''Polydesma''''' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833.<ref>{{LepIndex |id=287900 |accessdate=July 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=June 1, 2020 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/erebinae/polydesma/ |title=''Polydesma'' Boisduval, 1833 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=July 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |date=November 5, 2004 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=23589.0 |title=''Polydesma'' Boisduval, 1833 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=July 1, 2020}}</ref>
==Description== Palpi upturned, where the second joint reaching vertex of head. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with slight basal ridges and tuft of hair. Tibia spineless and more or less hairy. Forewings with somewhat rounded apex. Hindwings with vein 5 arise from above angle of cell. Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, where the first two pairs are rudimentary.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species== *''Polydesma boarmoides'' <small>Guenée, 1852</small> Uganda, South Africa, Indo-Australian Region, Fiji, New Caledonia, Hawaii *''Polydesma collusoria'' <small>(Berio, 1954)</small> Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zaire, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania *''Polydesma erubescens'' <small>Walker, 1865</small> Sri Lanka *''Polydesma hildebrandti'' <small>Viette, 1967</small> Madagascar *''Polydesma scriptilis'' <small>Guenée, 1852</small> Eritrea, Somalia, Namibia, Bangladesh, East Indies *''Polydesma umbricola'' <small>Boisduval, 1833</small> Mauritania, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Congo, Zaire, Angola, Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, New Caledonia, Australia, Hawaii
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