Bastilla joviana

Bastilla joviana is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Stoll in 1782.[1] It is found from the Oriental region to the Moluccas and in New Guinea and Australia. It is also present in South Africa.

Bastilla joviana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Bastilla
Species:	B. joviana
Binomial name
Bastilla joviana (Stoll, 1782)
Synonyms
Noctua joviana Stoll, 1782 Noctua sinuata Fabricius, 1781 Dysgonia jovis Hübner, 1816 Dysgonia affinis (Guenée, 1852) Parallelia curvisecta Prout, 1919 Dysgonia curvisecta (L. B. Prout, 1919) Parallelia joviana Stoll; Holloway, 1976 Dysgonia sinuata (Fabricius, 1781) Dysgonia joviana (Stoll, 1782)

The larvae feed on Acalypha, Breynia and Phyllanthus species.

Subspecies

• Bastilla joviana joviana
• Bastilla joviana curvisecta (New Guinea and Australia)

References

1. 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.

External links

• Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Bastilla joviana Stoll". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
• Kemal, Muhabbet & Koçak, Ahmet Ömer (2007). Synonymous Checklist of the South African Lepidoptera (PDF). Cesa Publications on African Lepidoptera. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-19 – via Internet Archive.