Avatha bubo

Avatha bubo is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Sundaland, Sulawesi, Seram, throughout India, Sri Lanka and Andaman Islands.

Avatha bubo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Avatha
Species:
A. bubo
Binomial name
Avatha bubo
(Geyer, 1832)[1]
Synonyms
  • Athyrma bubo Geyer, 1832
  • Hypaetra perficiens Walker, 1858
  • Hypaetra condita Walker, 1858
  • Athyrma bubo Hübner; Holloway, 1976
  • Pseudathyrma bubo Hübner; Kobes, 1985

Description

Its wingspan about 56 mm. Males with non-distorted sub-costal neuration of forewings and without sexual patches on forewing and hindwing. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. Head, thorax and forewings purplish grey. Forewings with medial and outer area palest. The black lunules on the antemedial and postmedial lines extremely large and produced at their angles. The lines more distinct and dentate. Some pale specks on the costa. Hindwings with a diffused pale streak near with a medial maculate line.[2]

Larva speckled and mottled, with 'muddy', lichen-greenish grey all over. The larvae feed on the flowers and young leaves of Nephelium species.[3]

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Avatha Walker 1858". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 13, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 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. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Avatha bubo Geyer comb. n." The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved August 14, 2016.


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