Earias flavida

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Earias flavida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nolidae
Genus:
Earias
Species:
E. flavida
Binomial name
Earias flavida
C. Felder, 1861
Synonyms
  • Digba uninotataWalker, 1862
  • Earias annuliferaWalker, 1866
  • Earias sulphurariaMoore, [1887]
  • Earias flavida ab. sauteriStrand, 1917

Earias flavida is a moth of the family Nolidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder in 1861. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java to Samoa and Tonga.

Moth Group of mostly-nocturnal insects in the order Lepidoptera

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.

Nolidae family of insects

Nolidae is a family of moths with about 1,400 described species worldwide. They are mostly small with dull coloration, the main distinguishing feature being a silk cocoon with a vertical exit slit. The group is sometimes known as tuft moths after the tufts of raised scales on the forewings of two subfamilies, Nolinae and Collomeninae. The larvae also tend to have muted colors and tufts of short hairs.

Baron Cajetan von Felder Austrian politician and scientist

Baron Cajetan von Felder was an Austrian lawyer, entomologist and liberal politician. He served as mayor of Vienna from 1868 to 1878.

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Description

The wingspan is about 15 mm. Head, thorax and forewings are bright yellow. There are very indistinct antemedial and postmedial greenish lines. The outer margin is tinged with green. A brown annulus on the discocellulars is present. [1] Hindwings are semi-diaphanous white with apex suffused with yellow. [2]

Wingspan distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip of an airplane or an animal (insect, bird, bat)

The wingspan of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777-200 has a wingspan of 60.93 metres, and a wandering albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of 3.63 metres, the official record for a living bird. The term wingspan, more technically extent, is also used for other winged animals such as pterosaurs, bats, insects, etc., and other fixed-wing aircraft such as ornithopters. In humans, the term wingspan also refers to the arm span, which is distance between the length from one end of an individual's arms to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90º angle. Former professional basketball player Manute Bol stands at 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) and owns one of the largest wingspans at 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m).

Ecology

The larvae feed on the buds and young fruits of Grewia species. [3] They are light yellowish brown to smoky black with a marbled, grey or light brown dorsal band. Pupation takes place in a papery brown cocoon. [4]

<i>Grewia</i> genus of plants

The large flowering plant genus Grewia is today placed by most authors in the mallow family Malvaceae, in the expanded sense as proposed by in the APG. Formerly, it was placed in either the family Tiliaceae or the Sparrmanniaceae. However, these were both not monophyletic with respect to other Malvales - as already indicated by the uncertainties surrounding placement of Grewia and similar genera - and have thus been merged into the Malvaceae. Together with the bulk of the former Sparrmanniaceae, Grewia is in the subfamily Grewioideae and therein the tribe Grewieae, of which it is the type genus.

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References

  1. ↑ Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (1 April 2011). "Earias flavida C. Felder 1861". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  2. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Earias flavida Felder, 1861". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  4. ↑ The Moths of Borneo


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