Avatha discolor

Avatha discolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Avatha
Species: A. discolor
Binomial name
Avatha discolor
(Fabricius, 1794)[1]
Synonyms
  • Noctua discolor Fabricius, 1794
  • Avatha includens Walker, 1857
  • Hypaetra trigonifera Walker, 1858
  • Hypaetra curvifera Walker, 1858
  • Hypaetra complacens Walker, 1858
  • Ophiusa frontalis Walker, 1858
  • Achaea expectans Walker, 1858
  • Avatha complacens (Walker, 1858)
  • Avatha curvifera (Walker, 1858)
  • Avatha frontalis (Walker, 1858)
  • Avatha trigonifera (Walker, 1858)
  • Avatha caunindana (Strand, 1920)
  • Hypaetra delunaris Strand, 1917
  • Hypaetra devittalis Strand, 1917
  • Hypaetra discoloralis Strand, 1917
  • Hypaetra subdiscoloralis Strand, 1917
  • Hypaetra thursdayensis Strand, 1917

Avatha discolor [2] is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian and Pacific tropics to as far east as Henderson Island.[3]

Description

Wingspan is about 40-46mm. Males with minutely ciliated antennae and subcostal neuration of fore wings not distorted and without sexual patches on fore and hind wings. Fore wings are greyish and fuscous suffused. No spots on costa. The lunule on the antemedial line sometimes obsolescent. A dark spot found in the cell. The postmedial line "S-shaped" beyond the cell with a blackish patch in its upper curve. Hind wings with whitish cilia at apex and near anal angle.[4]

Recorded food plants are Nephelium, Sapindus, and Callicarpa.[5]

References

  1. ↑ taxapad.com
  2. ↑ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.
  3. ↑ "Distribution of Avatha discolor (Fabricius, 1794)". Butterfly House. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Avatha discolor Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.


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