Dichromia sagitta

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Dichromia sagitta
Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius, 1775) cropped from Cramer-Stoll.JPG
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Dichromia
Species:
D. sagitta
Binomial name
Dichromia sagitta
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms [1]
  • Noctua sagittaFabricius, 1775
  • Phalaena (Noctua) orosiaCramer, 1780
  • Phalaena (Noctua) macularisHübner, 1787

Dichromia sagitta is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in India, [2] Macau, [3] Hong Kong, [4] Japan and Taiwan.

Biology

The larvae had been recorded on Marsdenia species, Marsdenia volublis ( Apocynaceae ), Tylophora asthamatica , Tylophora ovata [5] and Tylophora indica , an Asclepiadaceae . [6]

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References

  1. Lödl, Martin (June 30, 1993). "Notes on the synonymy of the genera Hypena Schrank, 1802, Dichromia Guenée, 1854 and Harita Moore, 1882. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hypeninae)". Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen. 45 (1/2): 11–14.
  2. Savela, Markku (July 31, 2019). "Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius, 1775)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  3. Easton, Emmett R. & Pun, Wing-Wah (1993). "New records of moths from Macau, Southeast China". Tropical Lepidoptera. 7 (2): 113-118.
  4. Flickr: images from Eugene Karolinskiy
  5. Insects in Indian Agroecosystems
  6. Gole, N. S. & Das, B. K. (2011). Biology of Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius) (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera), a serious pest of Indian ipecac, Tylophora indica". The Journal of Plant Protection Sciences. 3 (2): 14-19.