Asota orbona

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Asota orbona
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Asota
Species:
A. orbona
Binomial name
Asota orbona
(Vollenhoven, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Hypsa orbonaVollenhoven, 1863
  • Asota discoidalisRothschild, 1897
  • Asota ocellataRothschild, 1897
  • Asota ochrealisSwinhoe, 1892
  • Asota queenslandicaRothschild, 1897
  • Hypsa significansWalker, 1864
  • Asota intermediaJoicey & Noakes, 1915
  • Asota talbotiProud, 1920
  • Asota intermedia extremaRoepke 1939
  • Asota striataRoepke, 1939

Asota orbona is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1863. It is found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Queensland.

The wing is yellowish with brown shading. It has four spots on its forewing with black dots on the thorax and the bases of the forewing. The wingspan is about 50 mm.

The larvae feed on Ficus species.

Subspecies

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