Bastilla joviana

Bastilla joviana
Sri Lanka
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Bastilla
Species:	B. joviana
Binomial name
Bastilla joviana (Stoll, 1782)
Synonyms
Noctua jovianaStoll, 1782 Noctua sinuataFabricius, 1781 Dysgonia jovisHübner, 1816 Dysgonia affinis(Guenée, 1852) Parallelia curvisectaProut, 1919 Dysgonia curvisecta(L. B. Prout, 1919) Parallelia jovianaStoll; Holloway, 1976 Dysgonia sinuata(Fabricius, 1781) Dysgonia joviana(Stoll, 1782)

Bastilla joviana is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Caspar Stoll in 1782. ^[1] It is found from the Oriental region to the Moluccas and in New Guinea and Australia. It is also present in South Africa.

The larvae feed on Acalypha , Breynia and Phyllanthus species.

Subspecies

• Bastilla joviana joviana
• Bastilla joviana curvisecta (New Guinea and Australia)

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.

External links

• Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Bastilla joviana Stoll". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
• Kemal, Muhabbet & Koçak, Ahmet Ömer (2007). Synonymous Checklist of the South African Lepidoptera (PDF). Cesa Publications on African Lepidoptera. Vol. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-19 – via Internet Archive.