Cricula trifenestrata

Cricula silkmoth
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Saturniidae
Genus:Cricula
Species: C. trifenestrata
Binomial name
Cricula trifenestrata
Helfer, 1837
Synonyms
  • Saturnia trifenestrata Helfer, 1837
  • Cricula andrei Holloway, 1976

Cricula trifenestrata, the cricula silkmoth, is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It is found from India to the Philippines, Sulawesi, Java, and Sri Lanka.

Female
Female from Borneo
Upperside and wing venation

Description

The wingspan is 65–100 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June with a possible second brood from August to September. Male is brown, ochreous, yellowish to reddish. Forewings are consisted with a waved anti-medial dark line and a small hyaline spot beyond the end of the cell, with one or two others above it. The upper one is a dark spot. Hindwings with oblique line continued to the inner margin before the middle. There is a hyaline spot beyond the cell. Ventral side is much purple.[1]

Female is red. There are three large irregularly shaped hyaline spots beyond the cell of the forewing, often with one or two small sides inside them.

Larva is blackish brown in color. There are six setiferous tubercles in each somite from 2nd to 11th. First somite and anal claspers are crimson colored. Legs and prolegs are brown colored. Cocoon composed of bright golden yellow silk firmly united into a network.

The larvae have been recorded on Anacardium, Mangifera, Spondias, Careya, Bischofia, Canarium, Quercus, Cinnamomum, Machilus, Persea, Acrocarpus, Ziziphus, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Salix and Schleichera species.

References

  1. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths. I. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 29 September 2017.


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