Artena dotata

Artena dotata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Artena
Species: A. dotata
Binomial name
Artena dotata
(Fabricius, 1794)
Synonyms
  • Noctua dotata Fabricius, 1794
  • Thyas dotata (Fabricius)

Artena dotata is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the Indian subregion to Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Japan, Sumatra and Borneo.

Description

Wingspan is about 72mm. Body bronze brown. Fore wings with a white speck in the cell. Antemdial and postmedial lines of fore wings are very oblique, where antemedials are not waved and postmedials very slightly waved. Reniform broken up into two spots. A prominent marginal greyish band with a waved line found on it. Hind wings with prominent medial incomplete white band. The margin and cilia whitish. Ventral side with pale basal areas in both wings.[1]

Spherical eggs are blue-green in color and are vertically ridged. Larvae spidery with the comb-like true legs on a thick thorax. Abdomen long. Primary setae are long. Third instar larvae light brown with a white line series, which running longitudinally. Pupa typically ophiusine form.[2]

The larvae feed on Combretum, Getonia, Quisqualis and Terminalia species.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Artena dotata Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 13 August 2016.


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