Aemene taprobanis

Aemene taprobanis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Aemene
Species: A. taprobanis
Binomial name
Aemene taprobanis
Walker, 1854
Synonyms
  • Panassa cingalesa Walker, 1865
  • Autoceras grammophora Felder, 1874
  • Aemene sinuata Moore, 1878
  • Siccia taprobanis likiangensis Daniel, 1951

Aemene taprobanis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found in China (Li-Kiang), the north-western Himalayas, India (Sikkim, Assam, Bombay), Sri Lanka and Malacca.[1]

Description

Head and thorax grey. Tegula usually with a black speck. Forewings grey, more or less suffused with fuscous. Waved sub-basal, antemedial, medial and postmedial black lines present. Postmedial lines excurved round the end of cell and then bent inwards to near the medial band and with some diffused streaks beyond it. A series of marginal specks and a black spot at center of cell and another at end of it. Hindwings pale and more or less suffused with fuscous.[2]

Subspecies

  • Aemene taprobanis taprobanis
  • Aemene taprobanis likiangensis (Daniel, 1951) (China: Li-Kiang)

References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Aemene taprobanis Walker, 1854". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths volume II". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.


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