Hypocala violacea
| Hypocala violacea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Hypocalinae |
| Genus: | Hypocala |
| Species: | H. violacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypocala violacea Butler, 1879 | |
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Hypocala violacea is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.
Description
The adult forewings are a uniform rufous and violet brown, marks on the distal margin being reduced to a pair of dots at the tornus, the inner one white, the outer one black, ringed white, an enlarged member of the marginal row of white dots. The hindwing underside is broadly fawn over the anterior half, with darker striae. Sri Lankan specimens have black markings on dorsal side of hind wings and ventral side of fore wings are rather narrow.[1]
Caterpillar has variably orange to black head, and black body. Around each spiracle, there is an orange patch. Ventral surface is fuscous green.[2] The larvae feed on Diospyros species.
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Hypocala violacea Butler. The Moths of Borneo.
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