Speiredonia mutabilis
| Speiredonia mutabilis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Hulodini |
| Genus: | Speiredonia |
| Species: | S. mutabilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Speiredonia mutabilis (Fabricius, 1794) | |
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From Sri Lanka
Speiredonia mutabilis is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, from Sundaland eastwards to Australia, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga.[1]
Description
Wingspan is about 70-78mm. Adult blackish brown with purplish tinged. Fore wings with waved sub-basal, antemedial, and medial black lines. There is a spot in cell and a double post-medial waved line excurved from vein 2 to lower angle o cell. An indistinct sinuous sub-marginal double line also present. Hind wings with medial lunulate line and traces of a sinuous double sub-marginal line.[2]
The larvae feed on Acacia species.[3]
References
- ↑ Speiredonia mutabilis (Fabricius, 1794). Butterfly House.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Speiredonia mutabilis Fabricius. The Moths of Borneo.
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