Sympis rufibasis

Sympis rufibasis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Sympis
Species: S. rufibasis
Binomial name
Sympis rufibasis
Guenée, 1852

Sympis rufibasis is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Borneo east to New Guinea, the Solomons and Queensland.[1]

Description

Wingspan is about 48m. The wingspan is about 50 mm. Male has orange-red head and thorax. Abdomen reddish brown. Fore wings with orange-red basal area, bounded by an oblique blue line. The outer area reddish brown with a large scarlet lunule beyond the cell and a white speck on the costa above it. An indistinct, irregularly dentate, sub-marginal line and a marginal specks series present. Hind wings fuscous with incomplete medial white band and waved marginal line. Ventral side almost entirely grey suffused. A crenulate postmedial line present. Female lack scarlet lunule on fore wings.[2]

Larva darkish, olive green-brown colored with a distinct pale yellow stripe runs along each side that extends from the head to the anal prolegs. The larvae feed on Dimocarpus, Litchi and Nephelium species.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Distribution of Sympis rufibasis Guenée, 1852". Butterfly House. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 15 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. ↑ "Sympis rufibasis Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 15 August 2016.


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