Xyleutes persona

Xyleutes persona
In Sri Lanka
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cossidae
Genus: Xyleutes
Species: X. persona
Binomial name
Xyleutes persona
(Le Guillou, 1841)
Synonyms
  • Cossus persona Le Guillou, 1841
  • Xyleutes persona biakensis Roepke, 1957
  • Zeuzera leuconotus Walker, 1856
  • Xyleutes leuconotus
  • Duomitus leuconotus
  • Strigoides leucolophus Guérin-Méneville, 1844

Xyleutes persona is a moth of the Cossidae family. It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, south-east Asia, Sundaland, Sulawesi, New Guinea and Queensland. The habitat consists of lowland forests.[1]

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Description

Mounted specimen

The head and abdomen of the male is black. The thorax is covered with erect white scales. The forewings are blackish. The reticulations (net-like pattern) are not so close. The inner marginal area with irregular white conjoined patches. White patches on the costa towards the apex. A black streak beyond the cell. Hindwings are blackish with black reticulations. A white patch on outer margin towards anal angle present. In the female, a large white patch sometimes developed at the center of the costa of forewing and those towards apex more developed.[2]

Larvae bore Casuarina trees and have also been recorded feeding on Durio and Premna species.

References

  1. ↑ The Moths of Borneo
  2. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths. I. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 29 September 2017.


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