Bastilla fulvotaenia

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Bastilla fulvotaenia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Bastilla
Species:
B. fulvotaenia
Binomial name
Bastilla fulvotaenia
(Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Ophiusa fulvotaeniaGuenée, 1852
  • Ophiusa absorptaWarren, 1913
  • Ophiusa contractaWarren, 1913
  • Ophiusa unipunctaWarren, 1913
  • Parallelia fulvotaeniaGuenée; Holloway, 1976
  • Dysgonia unipuncta(Warren, 1913)
  • Dysgonia contracta(Warren, 1913)
  • Dysgonia fulvotaenia(Moore, 1877) [1]

Bastilla fulvotaenia is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from the Indian subregion and Sri Lanka, Taiwan to Lombok, Seram and Buru. Adult is a fruit-piercer. [2]

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Description

Its wingspan is about 70–80 mm. Males with a cleft running the whole length of the mid-tibia and containing a mass of flocculent scales. Body reddish brown. Forewings with purplish suffused medial band and postmedial line dark throughout, and with an indistinct dentate line beyond it. Hindwings with a medial orange band, which is wide towards costa. [3]

The larvae feed on Glochidion species.

References

  1. ↑ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae . CRC Press. ISBN   0-916846-45-8, ISBN   978-0-916846-45-9
  2. ↑ "Bastilla fulvotaenia Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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