Sewa orbiferata

Sewa orbiferata is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1862.[1] It is found in northern India, northern Myanmar, Malaysia, Borneo, Java and China (Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian).[2]

Sewa orbiferata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Drepanidae
Genus:
Sewa
Species:
S. orbiferata
Binomial name
Sewa orbiferata
(Walker, 1862)
Synonyms
  • Abraxas orbiferata Walker, 1862
  • Macrocilix orbiferata
  • Argyris insignata Moore, [1868]
  • Abraxas orbiferata cilicoides Snellen, 1889

Adults are white, the forewings with four cinereous obliquely quadrate spots on the costa and an irregular broad discal transverse band, which is transversed by two short wavy streaks and a submarginal series of small spots. The marginal line is blackish. The hindwings are suffused with orange yellow on the lower part of the exterior border and there is a brownish-cinereous submarginal band, maculated anteriorly and traversed posteriorly by two parallel white lines, beneath which are three short black streaks. Two similar streaks are found above it on the abdominal margin.[3]

Subspecies
  • Sewa orbiferata orbiferata (northern India, northern Myanmar, Malaysia, Borneo, China: Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian)
  • Sewa orbiferata cilicoides (Snellen, 1889) (Java)

References
  1. Beccaloni, George; et al. (February 2005). "Scientific name search". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Sewa orbiferata (Walker, 1862)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 645


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