Cricula trifenestrata
| Cricula trifenestrata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Saturniidae |
| Subfamily: | Saturniinae |
| Genus: | Cricula |
| Species: | C. trifenestrata |
| Binomial name | |
| Cricula trifenestrata Helfer, 1837 | |
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The Cricula Silkmoth (Cricula trifenestrata) is a moth of the Saturniidae family. It is found from India to the Philippines, Sulawesi, Java, and Sri Lanka.
Description
The wingspan is 65–100 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June with a possible second brood from August to September. Male is brown, ochreous, yellowish to reddish in color. Fore wings are consisted with a waved anti-medial dark line and a small hyaline spot beyond the end of the cell, with one or two others above it. The upper one is a dark spot. Hind wings with oblique line continued to the inner margin before the middle. There is a hyaline spot beyond the cell. Ventral side is much purple.[1]
Female is red in color. There are three large irregularly shaped hyaline spots beyond the cell of the fore wing, often with one or two small sides inside them.
Larva is blackish brown in color. There are six setiferous tubercles in each somite from 2nd to 11th. First somite and anal claspers are crimson colored. Legs and prolegs are brown colored. Cocoon composed of bright golden yellow silk firmly united into a network.
The larvae have been recorded on Anacardium, Mangifera, Spondias, Careya, Bischofia, Canarium, Quercus, Cinnamomum, Machilus, Persea, Acrocarpus, Ziziphus, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Salix and Schleichera species.
References
- ↑ 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.