Serrodes partita

Catapault Moth
Serrodes partita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Cocytiini
Genus: Serrodes
Species: S. partita
Binomial name
Serrodes partita
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Noctua partita - Fabricius 1775
  • Ophiodes basisignum - Walker, 1858
  • Phalaena inara - Cramer, 1780
  • Phoberia korana - Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

The Catapult moth, (Serrodes partita) is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in western, eastern, central and southern Africa,[1] Australia, India, Indonesia (Borneo, Java) and Sri Lanka.[2][3]

Description

The wingspan of the adults is approximately 60 mm. Head, thorax and fore wings dark or red or greyish brown. Fore wings with a sub-basal dark red-brown spot on the costa, with a line from its lower edge. A similar antemedial spot and large lunule found below the cell with a highly excurved line from its lower edge. Reniform broken up into a number of tessellated spots with pale edges, and with rufous marks on the costa above it. A double straight postmedial line angled below the costa. Abdomen and hind wings are fuscous. Hind wings have traces of a medial pale line. Cilia paler at apex and anal angle.[4]

They feed on plants such as Prunus persica, Sapindus saponaria, Sapindus trifoliatus,[5] Pappea capensis, Prunus persica, Sapindus saponica, Grewia occidentalis, Citrus, Deinbollia oblongifolia, Acacia, Deinbollia pinnata, Eucalyptus blobulus, and Leptospermum laevigatum.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ africanmoths.com
  2. ↑ www.afromoths.net
  3. ↑ "Serrodes Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ www.globalspecies.org
  6. ↑ "Catapault Moth.". African Moths. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
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