Mocis undata

Mocis undata, the brown-striped semilooper, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in the Afrotropical and Oriental regions, including India and Sri Lanka.

Brown-striped semilooper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Mocis
Species:
M. undata
Binomial name
Mocis undata
(Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Noctua undata Fabricius, 1775
  • Remigia archesia Hampson, 1782
  • Phalaena archesia Cramer, 1782
  • Phalaena virbia Cramer, 1782
  • Remigia gregalis Guenée, 1852
  • Ophisma velata Walker, 1864
  • Remigia bifasciata Walker, 1865
  • Cauninda bifasciata Warren, 1913
  • Mocis uberia Wileman, 1923
  • Mocis virbia (Cramer, 1782)

Description

Male with mid and hind tibia clothed with long hair. Body pale red-brown. Abdomen pale fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Forewing with a short sub-basal red-brown line. An oblique antemedial pale of ochreous line present, with diffused red-brown band on its outer edge. A sinuous medial line angled on median nervure. Reniform large and indistinct. A red-brown diffused postmedial band, on which is a dark line slightly curved outwards beyond the cell, and at vein 2, it is very irregularly curved inwards to lower angle of cell, then descending to inner margin. An indistinct pale waved sub-marginal line present with a black specks series on it. There is a dark waved marginal line. Hindwings ochreous fuscous, with narrow fuscous medial band and diffused sub-marginal band. Legs rufous.[2]

Larva purplish brown speckled with black. The lateral area yellowish with red lines. A sub-lateral row of small black dots present. Head brownish with red lateral streak. Pupa efflorescent. The larvae feed on Cytisus, Desmodium, Wisteria, Arachis, Butea, Cajanus, Calopogonium, Crotalaria, Derris, Glycine, Indigofera, Mucuna, Phaseolus, Pueraria, Rhynchosia, Tephrosia, Vigna, Shorea, Hevea, Gossypium, Nephelium and Solanum species.[3]

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Mocis undata (Fabricius 1775)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 21, 2019. Retrieved January 20, 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. "Mocis undata Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 15 August 2016.


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