Buzara onelia
Buzara onelia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Buzara |
Species: | B. onelia |
Binomial name | |
Buzara onelia (Guenée, 1852) | |
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Buzara onelia is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indian subregion to Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sundaland, the Philippines and Japan.[2]
Taxonomy
Buzara umbrosa was considered a synonym of Buzara onelia, but research has shown it is a valid species.
Description
Wingspan about 44-46mm. It is a dark grey-brown with a purplish tinged. The head and collar collar usually fulvous. Fore wings with brown suffusion. Sub-basal, antemedial and postmedial indistinct waved lines and antemedial and medial ill-defined bands are greyish. There is a grey apical patch with whitish edges, and sinuous dark line runs from it to inner margin. An indistinct dentate submarginal line present with a greyish margin. Hind wings with traces of medial and antemedial pale lines found near inner margin. Outer margin is greyish.[3]
Larva with rudimentary first two abdominal proleg pairs. Body greyish white above and olive-grey below, with black spots in somewhat linear series on each somite. A reddish lateral spot found on fourth somite. Pupa efflorescent. The larvae feed on Phyllanthus and Sauropus species.[4]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Buzara onelia Gueneeババアシブトクチバ". jpmoth. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Buzara onelia Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 13 August 2016.