Epipsestis ornata

Last updated

Epipsestis ornata
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Epipsestis
Species:
E. ornata
Binomial name
Epipsestis ornata
(Leech, [1889])
Synonyms
  • Polyploca ornataLeech, 1889
  • Polyploca ornata var. unicolorLeech, 1889
  • Polyploca ornata var. concolorDalla Torre, 1921
  • Sugiploca sugitaniiMatsumura, 1933

Epipsestis ornata is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by John Henry Leech in 1889. [1] It is found in Japan, the Korean Peninsula, the Russian Far East [2] and the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Shaanxi. [3]

The wingspan is about 38 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is greyish brown, but browner along the base and costa. There is a series of dark wavy lines forming a broad band, the interior border of which is curved and sharply serrated, and the outer elbowed below the subcostal nervure, and indented above the inner margin. The central fascia is greyish white towards the inner margin, bordered externally by a blackish double line deeply angulated towards the outer margin, followed by a dark serrated line, and a fainter submarginal dentated line curving from the apex to the outer margin. There is a series of black linear marks along the outer margin, as well as three tufts of raised black scales, one forming a basal dash, the second representing the orbicular stigma and the third, which is edged with whitish, the reniform stigma. The hindwings are fuscous brown, darker towards the margins. [4]

The larvae feed on Quercus mongolica . [5]

Subspecies

Related Research Articles

<i>Ochropacha</i> Monotypic moth genus in family Drepanidae

Ochropacha is a monotypic moth genus in the family Drepanidae. The genus was first described by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1871. Its single species, Ochropacha duplaris, the common lutestring, was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. It is found in China (Jilin), Russia, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and from Central Asia to Europe.

<i>Epipsestis nikkoensis</i> Species of false owlet moth

Epipsestis nikkoensis is a moth of the family Drepanidae first described by Shōnen Matsumura in 1921. It is found in the Chinese provinces of Jilin, Shaanxi and Hubei and in Japan, Taiwan, the Russian Far East, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, the Korean Peninsula, Thailand and northern Vietnam.

<i>Habrosyne indica</i> Species of false owlet moth

Habrosyne indica is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found from India to Taiwan and Japan.

Epipsestis castaneata is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Warren in 1915. It is found in Sikkim in India, Hunan in China and in Nepal and Vietnam.

Epipsestis albidisca is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in western India, Sikkim, Nepal, Pakistan, China and Vietnam.

Epipsestis mediofusca is a moth in the family Drepanidae described by Yoshimoto in 1982. It is found in Nepal and Tibet, China.

Epipsestis nigropunctata is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in China, Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East and Nepal.

Epipsestis stueningi is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in Yunnan, China.

<i>Habrosyne dieckmanni</i> Species of false owlet moth

Habrosyne dieckmanni is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in the Russian Far East, Japan, north-eastern China and Korea.

Habrosyne intermedia is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in the Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula, Japan, India, Nepal and China.

Habrosyne violacea is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in the Russian Far East, Korea, China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Nepal and Sikkim, India.

Macrothyatira conspicua is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by John Henry Leech in 1900. It is found in the Chinese provinces of Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian, Sichuan and Yunnan and in Taiwan.

Macrothyatira oblonga is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Gustave Arthur Poujade in 1887. It is found in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan.

Nothoploca nigripunctata is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in India, Vietnam, Korea, China and the Russian Far East.

Neoploca is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Thyatirinae of the Drepanidae. It was first described by Shōnen Matsumura in 1927. It contains only one species, Neoploca arctipennis, first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878, which is found in Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East and China.

<i>Tethea octogesima</i> Species of false owlet moth

Tethea octogesima is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. It is found in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan and the Russian Far East.

Tethea trifolium is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It is found in China, the Russian Far East and Japan. The habitat consists of various types of mixed and broad-leaved forests.

Nemacerota tancrei is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Ludwig Carl Friedrich Graeser in 1888. It is found in the Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula, Japan and China.

Parapsestis cinerea is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Gyula M. László, Gábor Ronkay, László Aladár Ronkay and Thomas Joseph Witt in 2007. It is found in China in Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Guangxi, Sichuan, Jilin, Liaoning and Beijing, the Russian Far East and Korea.

Shinploca is a monotypic moth genus in the family Drepanidae. Its only species, Shinploca shini, is found in the Chinese provinces of Jilin and Shaanxi, south-eastern Russia and the Korean Peninsula. Both the genus and species were described by Sung-Soo Kim in 1995.

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Epipsestis ornata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 23, 2018. Note: This source gives 1888 as the year of description.
  2. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Epipsestis ornata (Leech, [1889])". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID   25947492.
  4. ↑ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888: 653
  5. ↑ A review of the Thyatirin-moths (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae: Thyatirinae) of the Russian Far East Archived October 20, 2013, at the Wayback Machine


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.