Olepa ocellifera

Olepa ocellifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Olepa
Species: O. ocellifera
Binomial name
Olepa ocellifera
(Walker, 1855)[1]
Synonyms
  • Alope ocellifera Walker, 1855

Olepa ocellifera is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.[2]

Description

Closely resembled much wider Olepa ricini, differ only due to presence of chain like small yellow banded black spots in between large spots in fore wings, which lack in O. ricini. Head and thorax dark greyish brown in color. Collar fringed with crimson and with a pair of pale-ringed black spots. Tegulae with two pairs and vertex of thorax with one similar spot. Abdomen crimson with a series of short dorsal black bands and lateral spots. Fore wings are fuscous brown with very numerous pale-ringed black spots in the interspaces. Hind wing crimson, with ante-medial, medial, post-medial and marginal bands and more or less conjoined blotches. Larva dark brown in body color with white and dorsal and lateral tufts of long dark hair.[3]

References

  1. ↑ funet
  2. ↑ A new Olepa species from Israel
  3. ↑ 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.


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