Bastilla absentimacula

Bastilla absentimacula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Bastilla
Species: B. absentimacula
Binomial name
Bastilla absentimacula
(Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Naxia absentimacula Guenée, 1852
  • Dysgonia sylvestris (Strand, 1920)
  • Parallelia silvestris Strand, 1920
  • Dysgonia absentimacula (Guenée, 1852) [1]

Bastilla absentimacula is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indian subregion to Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Taiwan, Java and New Guinea.

Description

The wingspan is about 50–60 mm. A pale red-brown moth. Fore wings with a broad greyish medial band with a straight dark line on its inner edge and a sinuous line on its outer. There is a slightly oblique and sinuous postmedial line present. A marginal pale specks series and marginal dark specks series also found. Hind wings pale fuscous. A broad diffused submarginal line can be seen, which is very wide at apex.[2]

The larvae feed on Phyllanthus species.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  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. ↑ "Bastilla absentimacula Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 13 August 2016.


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