Oreta carnea

Oreta carnea is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1892.[1] It is found in Malaysia, Singapore and on Sumatra, Java and Borneo.[2]

Oreta carnea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Oreta
Species:
O. carnea
Binomial name
Oreta carnea
(Butler, 1892)
Synonyms
  • Agnidra carnea Butler, 1892
  • Drepana berenica Swinhoe, 1893
  • Cobanilla hepaticata Warren, 1897
  • Cobanilla cardinalis Warren, 1897

The wingspan is about 35 mm. Adults are a sericeous (silky) pale brownish-flesh colour (brownish mixed with the idealized colour of the skin of British people in 1892), sparsely irrorated (sprinkled) with small blackish dots. The forewings are crossed by two very indistinct oblique darker lines and there is a submarginal series of rosy spots on the veins. The hindwings have two whitish stigmata on the discocellulars.[3]

The larvae feed on Uncaria species.

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Oreta carnea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Oreta carnea (Butler, 1892)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
  3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1892 (1): 125


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