Bastilla fulvotaenia

Bastilla fulvotaenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Bastilla
Species:	B. fulvotaenia
Binomial name
	Bastilla fulvotaenia; (Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
	Ophiusa fulvotaenia Guenée, 1852; Ophiusa absorpta Warren, 1913; Ophiusa contracta Warren, 1913; Ophiusa unipuncta Warren, 1913; Parallelia fulvotaenia Guenée; Holloway, 1976; Dysgonia unipuncta (Warren, 1913); Dysgonia contracta (Warren, 1913); Dysgonia fulvotaenia (Moore, 1877) ;

Bastilla fulvotaenia is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from the Indian subregion and Sri Lanka, Taiwan to Lombok, Seram and Buru. Adult is a fruit-piercer.^[2]

Description

Its wingspan is about 70–80 mm. Males with a cleft running the whole length of the mid-tibia and containing a mass of flocculent scales. Body reddish brown. Forewings with purplish suffused medial band and postmedial line dark throughout, and with an indistinct dentate line beyond it. Hindwings with a medial orange band, which is wide towards costa.^[3]

The larvae feed on Glochidion species.

References

^ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae . CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9
^ "Bastilla fulvotaenia Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

External links

Species info

[1] Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae . CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9

[2] "Bastilla fulvotaenia Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.

[3] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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