Somera viridifusca

Prominent moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Notodontidae
Genus: Somera
Species: S. viridifusca
Binomial name
Somera viridifusca
Walker, 1855

Somera viridifusca, the prominent moth, is a moth of the Notodontidae family described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in Sri Lanka, Sundaland, the Philippines, Sulawesi, the north-eastern Himalaya, India (Sikkim), China (Hainan, Yunnan)[1] and Taiwan.

Camouflage

Description

Males have brown palpi. Vertex of head and thorax greenish. Abdomen is fuscous with the extremity is greenish. Forewings are bright green with a brown patch below and beyond the end of the cell. Two subbasal waved dark lines present. Two antemedial and four postmedial streaks present. Single submarginal streak has brownish blotches. Hindwings are fuscous. Some specimens lack forewing brown patch.[2]

The larvae are yellow green with a double yellow dorsal line. The area below the subdorsal stripe is green. The head is greyish white with olive markings. Pupation takes place underground.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Somera at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths. I. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  3. ↑ The Moths of Borneo


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