Oxyodes scrobiculata

Longan Semi-looper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Erebinae
Tribe: Poaphilini
Genus: Oxyodes
Species: O. scrobiculata
Binomial name
Oxyodes scrobiculata
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Noctua scrobiculata Fabricius, 1775
  • Noctua vittata Fabricius, 1775
  • Phalaena clytia Stoll, 1782
  • Oxyodes ochreata Rothschild, 1916
  • Oxyodes ochreata samoana Tams, 1935
  • Oxyodes ochreata tanymekes Tams, 1935
  • Oxyodes ochreata novaehebridensis Viette, 1951
  • Oxyodes scrobiculata Fabricius; Holloway, 1976
  • Oxyodes scrobiculata obscurior Holloway, 1979

The longan semi-looper, or longan leaf-eating looper (though looper moths are in the Geometridae, not Erebidae), (Oxyodes scrobiculata), is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, east to Guam, Queensland, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.[1]

Description

Wingspan is about 64mm. Body ochreous brown or yellow ochreous. Fore wing with sub-basal, antemedial, medial, two post-medial and a sub-marginal indistinct waved line present. Orbicular and reniform with black edges and often filled in with black. A lunulate mark often present below the cell. Hind wings with a broad black fascia found below the costa. There are two post-medial lines and an indistinct sub-marginal lunules series can be seen. Ventral side brownish, irrorated with grey. Both wings with ochreous inner area and a speck at end of cell. A postmedial line and blackish blotches found on outer area.[2]

Larva slender, tapering slightly at each end. Body pale emerald green with fine pale yellow dorsolateral lines. The abdominal pairs are reduced slightly towards the anterior. The larvae feed on Aglaia, Dimocarpus longan, Litchi chinensis and Nephelium lappaceum species.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Longan Leaf Eating Looper". Butterfly House. Retrieved 17 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. ↑ "Oxyodes scrobiculata Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 17 August 2016.


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