Speiredonia mutabilis

Speiredonia mutabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Speiredonia
Species: S. mutabilis
Binomial name
Speiredonia mutabilis
(Fabricius, 1794)
Synonyms
  • Noctua mutabilis Fabricius, 1794
  • Sericia anops Guenée, 1852
From Sri Lanka

Speiredonia mutabilis is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, from Sundaland eastwards to Australia, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga.[1]

Description

Wingspan is about 70-78mm. Adult blackish brown with purplish tinged. Fore wings with waved sub-basal, antemedial, and medial black lines. There is a spot in cell and a double post-medial waved line excurved from vein 2 to lower angle o cell. An indistinct sinuous sub-marginal double line also present. Hind wings with medial lunulate line and traces of a sinuous double sub-marginal line.[2]

The larvae feed on Acacia species.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Speiredonia mutabilis (Fabricius, 1794). Butterfly House.
  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. ↑ Speiredonia mutabilis Fabricius. The Moths of Borneo.


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