Avatha discolor

Avatha discolor [2] is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the Indo-Australian and Pacific tropics to as far east as Henderson Island.[3]

Avatha discolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Avatha
Species:
A. discolor
Binomial name
Avatha discolor
(Fabricius, 1794)[1]
Synonyms
  • Noctua discolor Fabricius, 1794
  • Avatha includens Walker, 1857
  • Hypaetra trigonifera Walker, 1858
  • Hypaetra curvifera Walker, 1858
  • Hypaetra complacens Walker, 1858
  • Ophiusa frontalis Walker, 1858
  • Achaea expectans Walker, 1858
  • Avatha complacens (Walker, 1858)
  • Avatha curvifera (Walker, 1858)
  • Avatha frontalis (Walker, 1858)
  • Avatha trigonifera (Walker, 1858)
  • Avatha caunindana (Strand, 1920)
  • Hypaetra delunaris Strand, 1917
  • Hypaetra devittalis Strand, 1917
  • Hypaetra discoloralis Strand, 1917
  • Hypaetra subdiscoloralis Strand, 1917
  • Hypaetra thursdayensis Strand, 1917

Description

Its wingspan is about 40–46 mm. Males with minutely ciliated antennae and subcostal neuration of forewings not distorted and without sexual patches on forewings and hindwings. Forewings are greyish and fuscous suffused. No spots on costa. The lunule on the antemedial line sometimes obsolescent. A dark spot found in the cell. The postmedial line "S-shaped" beyond the cell with a blackish patch in its upper curve. Hindwings with whitish cilia at apex and near anal angle.[4]

Recorded food plants are Nephelium, Sapindus, and Callicarpa.[5]

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Avatha discolor (Fabricius 1794)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  2. Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9
  3. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (17 August 2013). "Avatha discolor (Fabricius, 1794)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  4. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Avatha discolor Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  • Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (17 August 2013). "Avatha discolor (Fabricius, 1794)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 13 January 2019.


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