Stictoptera cucullioides

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Stictoptera cucullioides
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S. cucullioides
Binomial name
Stictoptera cucullioides
Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
  • Stictoptera subobliqua(Walker, 1857)
  • Steiria subobliquaWalker, 1857
  • Steiria variabilisMoore, 1882
  • Stictoptera timesiaSwinhoe, 1893

Stictoptera cucullioides is a moth of the family Euteliidae. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka to the Bismarck Islands and Queensland. It is an introduced species in Hawaii, where it is found on Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii.

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Description

In the male, the head and thorax are greyish brown. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings greyish brown with numerous indistinct waved lines. Orbicular and reniform stigmata indistinct, where the latter with a few raised scaled on it. A series of small marginal lunules can be seen. Hindwings opalescent hyaline (glass like), where the veins and broad outer band are fuscous with pale colored cilia. [1]

Ecology

Larvae have been recorded on Mesua and Calophyllum species (including Calophyllum inophyllum ) and have been reared on Garcinia species. Other recorded food plants include Clusia rosea , Garcinia cambogia and Mammea americana . [2]

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References

  1. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (10 September 2015). "Stictoptera cucullioides Guenée, 1852". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 23 July 2018.