Sauris hirudinata

Sauris hirudinata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1858. It is found in Fiji, Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong, as well as on Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.

Sauris hirudinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Geometridae
Genus:
Sauris
Species:
S. hirudinata
Binomial name
Sauris hirudinata
Synonyms
  • Remodes abortivata Guenée, 1857
  • Remodes lobata Warren, 1895
  • Sauris remodesaria Walker, 1862

Description

Its wingspan is about 28 mm in male and 28–38 mm in female. Forewings of male with distorted outer angle clothed with curved hair on underside, Hind tibia with a tuft of long hair from extremity. Paired lateral tufts from base of abdomen. Head and thorax olive-green, with slight dark markings. Antennae black. Forewings olive green, irrorated with silvery scales. There are numerous indistinct waved green lines, one sub-basal line, two antemedial, three postmedial and one submarginal being purplish fuscous. Some purplish suffusion found in interno-median interspace and beyond cell. A speck can be at end of cell. Margin purplish, with a black spot series. Abdomen and hindwings fuscous.[2]

Larva cylindrical with a rounded head, pale green with a fine yellow spiracular line. The caterpillar feeds on Alseodaphne, Lagerstroemia, Cinnamomum, Cassine, Excoecaria, Loranthus, Dendrophthoe, Syzygium and Sapindus species. They feed on the edges of young leaves. The larvae are pale green.[3]

Subspecies
  • Sauris hirudinata hirudinata
  • Sauris hirudinata abortivata Guenée, 1857 (Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo)

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Sauris hirundinata Guenee 1857". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on August 2, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  2. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. "Sauris hirudinata Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 2 October 2016.


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