Diarsia ochracea

Diarsia ochracea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Diarsia
Species: D. ochracea
Binomial name
Diarsia ochracea
(Walker, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Oxiara ochracea Walker, 1865
  • Oxira ochracea Walker 1865

Diarsia ochracea is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Sri Lanka. It is found in tea cultivation lands frequently.[1]

Description

Wingspan is about 41mm. It is an ochreous greyish brown or reddish brown moth. Palpi dark at sides. Fore wings with double subbasal and antemedial waved lines. The orbicular and reniform stigmata large in some specimen with a black spot between them and a triangular black spot before orbicular, the reniform often filled in chestnut color. There is a diffused angled medial fuscous band. A double lunulate curved postmedial line present. A submarginal pale line and marginal crenulate dark line can be seen. Hind wings are fuscous brown or reddish brown.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Tea: Cultivation to consumption". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  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. ↑ "Diarsia borneochracea sp.n." The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 2 August 2016.


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