Avatha bubo

Avatha bubo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Avatha
Species: A. bubo
Binomial name
Avatha bubo
(Geyer, 1832)[1]
Synonyms
  • Athyrma bubo Geyer, 1832
  • Hypaetra perficiens Walker, 1858
  • Hypaetra condita Walker, 1858
  • Athyrma bubo Hübner; Holloway, 1976
  • Pseudathyrma bubo Hübner; Kobes, 1985

Avatha bubo is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in Sundaland, Sulawesi, Seram, throughout India, Sri Lanka and Andaman Islands.

Description

Wingspan about 56mm. Males with non-distorted sub-costal neuration of fore wings and without sexual patches on fore and hind wing. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. Head, thorax and fore wings purplish grey. Fore wings with medial and outer area palest. The black lunules on the antemedial and postmedial lines extremely large and produced at their angles. The lines more distinct and dentate. Some pale specks on the costa. Hind wings with a diffused pale streak near with a medial maculate line.[2]

Larva speckled and mottled, with ‘muddy’, lichen-greenish grey all over. The larvae feed on the flowers and young leaves of Nephelium species.[3]

References

  1. ↑ taxapad.com
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Avatha bubo Geyer comb. n." The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.


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