Maurilia iconica

Maurilia iconica is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1857.[1] It is found in Indo-Australian tropics[2] of Sri Lanka,[3] Australia to the islands of Samoa, Rarotonga and New Caledonia.[4][5]

Maurilia iconica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nolidae
Genus:
Maurilia
Species:
M. iconica
Binomial name
Maurilia iconica
(Walker, 1857)
Synonyms
  • Anomis iconica Walker, 1857 [1858]
  • Briarda cervina Walker, 1866
  • Anomis candida instabilis Butler, 1889
  • Maurilia bifascia Gaede, 1915
  • Maurilia iconica ab. iconicoides Strand, 1915
  • Maurilia tunicata Swinhoe, 1918
  • Maurilia undaira Swinhoe, 1918
  • Maurilia fortis Swinhoe, 1918
  • Maurilia dalama Swinhoe, 1918
  • Maurilia gilva Swinhoe, 1919
  • Acontia elima Swinhoe, 1919
  • Maurilia iconicoides Gaede, 1938
  • Maurilia subiconica Kobes, 1997

Description

Forewings gray to reddish in variable patterns. Some specimen possess a crescent shaped reniform stigma. Dots of posterior half of the postmedial row is irregular. Caterpillar dark brown with some pale brown marbles. All subdorsal, dorsolateral, lateral and spiracular lines are whitish and broken. Setae blackish. Inter segments are greenish or orange tinged. Pupation occur in a whitish silken cocoon. Cocoon semi ovoid, dirty fuscous in color and boat shaped.[6]

Larval host plants include Vatica, Terminalia, Shorea, Anogeissus, Tectona and Saccharum species.[7]

References
  1. "Species Details: Maurilia iconica Walker, 1857". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  2. "チャオビリンガ Maurilia iconica (Walker, 1858)". Digital Moths of Japan. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  3. Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 – via Academia.
  4. "The Chloephorinae, Careini (Lepidoptera: Nolidae) of Papua Indonesia". Papua-Insects.nl. The Papua Insects Foundation. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  5. "Maurilia iconica (Walker, 1858) チャオビリンガ,Cat.3998". Digital Moths of Japan. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  6. ""Aquis" orbicularis Walker". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  7. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (14 March 2017). "Maurilia iconica (Walker, 1857)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 12 November 2018.


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