Serrodes campana

Serrodes campana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Serrodes
Species: S. campana
Binomial name
Serrodes campana
Guenée, 1852[1]
Synonyms
  • Serrodes nigha Guenée, 1852
  • Serrodes callipepla Prout, 1929

Serrodes campana is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to eastern Australia, Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia. It is also present in Japan, Korea and Sri Lanka. The adult is a fruit piercer, but also feeds on flower nectar.[2]

Description

The wingspan is about 80 mm. Head, thorax and basal and outer area of fore wings brown and markings larger than other species. Fore wings with a sub-basal dark red-brown spot on the costa, with a line from its lower edge. A similar antemedial spot and large lunule found below the cell with a highly excurved line from its lower edge. Reniform broken up into a number of tessellated spots with pale edges, and with rufous marks on the costa above it. A double straight postmedial line angled below the costa. Abdomen and hind wings are fuscous. Hind wings have traces of a medial pale line. Cilia paler at apex and anal angle.[3]

Larva ochreous blue-grey with bluish black speckles. The first abdominal segment black and swollen.[4] All the legs are ochreous. The larvae feed on Lepisanthes, Nephelium, Sapindus, Schleichera and Acer species. They are ochreous blue-grey, finely and densely speckled with bluish black, the spiracular zone of the abdomen forming a darker but irregular band with a more rufous edging above and below. All the legs are ochreous.[5]

Subspecies

  • Serrodes campana campana
  • Serrodes campana callipepla Prout, 1929

References

  1. ↑ Australian Faunal Directory
  2. ↑ Australian Insects
  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.
  4. ↑ "Serrodes campana Guenée, 1852". Butterfly House. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  5. ↑ The Moths of Borneo


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