Cerura liturata
| Cerura liturata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Genus: | Cerura |
| Species: | C. liturata |
| Binomial name | |
| Cerura liturata (Walker, 1855) | |
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Cerura liturata is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found from the Oriental Tropics of India, Sri Lanka to Sundaland.[1]
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Description
It is a pure white moth. Palpi are black. Collar and thorax spotted with black. Abdomen may be banded or completely suffused with black, leaving a white patch with a black semi-circular mark on the last abdominal segment. Fore wings with two waved sub-basal lines from the costa to median nervure, some black spots below the median nervure. A highly waved antemedial band, three waved postmedial lines and a waved medial line present. There is a black line on discocellulars surrounded by a black ring-mark. Hind wings are more or less suffused with fiscous. There are two indistinct medial lines and a series of marginal black spots.[2]
The larvae feed on Flacourtiaceae, Populus and Terminalia species.[3]
References
- ↑ "Cerura liturata Walker". jpmoth.org. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-i". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ↑ "Neocerura Kiriakoff". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 9 July 2016.