Asota plana

Asota plana
from Japan
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Aganainae
Genus:	Asota
Species:	A. plana
Binomial name
Asota plana Walker, 1854
Synonyms
Hypsa persecta Butler, 1875 Aganais albifera Felder, 1874 Asota plana f. confluens Strand, 1915 Asota centralis Rothschild, 1897 Asota cincta Rothschild, 1897 Asota complana Walker, 1875 Asota commixta Rothschild, 1897 Asota fergussonis Rothschild, 1897 Asota intermedia Rothschild, 1897 Hypsa lacteata Butler, 1881 Asota ternatensis Rothschild, 1897 Asota transiens Rothschild, 1897

Asota plana, commonly known as Owlet moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is found from the Oriental tropics east to New Guinea.

female

Description

The wingspan is about 56 mm. Fore wing have a large white patch filling the lower half of cell and the whole area below except inner margin and extending to near outer margin. Its upper edge has two dentitions, its outer edge is irregular and a large white spot at upper angle of cell. Hind wings with the narrow marginal band. There is an extra spot towards anal angle.^[1] Larva had large head with sparsely distributed hairs on body with dark purplish brown ground color. The thoracic somites are pale red and there is a narrow transverse yellow band on fourth to terminal somites.^[2]

Ecology

A reddish colored caterpillar was found from Sri Lanka. Larvae have been recorded on Ficus species, where they rest on the underside of the leaf.^[3]

Subspecies

Asota plana albifera

• Asota plana albifera (India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sikkim, Singapore, Taiwan)
• Asota plana centralis (Andaman islands, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan)
• Asota plana cincta (Indonesia)
• Asota plana commixta (Indonesia)
• Asota plana fergussonis (Papua New Guinea)
• Asota plana intermedia (Indonesia)
• Asota plana lacteata (Taiwan)
• Asota plana persecta (Indonesia)
• Asota plana plana (China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, Thailand, northern Vietnam)
• Asota plana transiens (Enggano)

References

1. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-i". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
2. "Asota Plana caterpillars". natureloveyou.sg. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
3. "Asota plana Walker". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 22 July 2016.

External links

• plana plana info
• The Snouted Tigers (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Aganainae) of Papua Indonesia
• Asota Plana Caterpillar