Bastilla fulvotaenia

Bastilla fulvotaenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Bastilla
Species: B. fulvotaenia
Binomial name
Bastilla fulvotaenia
(Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Ophiusa fulvotaenia Guenée, 1852
  • Ophiusa absorpta Warren, 1913
  • Ophiusa contracta Warren, 1913
  • Ophiusa unipuncta Warren, 1913
  • Parallelia fulvotaenia Guenée; Holloway, 1976
  • Dysgonia unipuncta (Warren, 1913)
  • Dysgonia contracta (Warren, 1913)
  • Dysgonia fulvotaenia (Moore, 1877) [1]

Bastilla fulvotaenia is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indian subregion and Sri Lanka, Taiwan to Lombok, Seram and Buru. Adult is a fruit-piercer.[2]

Description

Wingspan about 70-80mm. Males with a cleft running the whole length of the mid tibia and containing a mass of flocculent scales. Body reddish brown. Fore wings with purplish suffused medial band and postmedial line dark throughout, and with an indistinct dentate line beyond it. Hind wings with a medial orange band, which is wide towards costa.[3]

The larvae feed on Glochidion species.

References

  1. ↑ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.
  2. ↑ "Bastilla fulvotaenia Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.

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