Cerura liturata

Cerura liturata is a moth of the family Notodontidae described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found from the Oriental tropics of India, Sri Lanka to Sundaland.[1]

Cerura liturata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Notodontidae
Genus: Cerura
Species:
C. liturata
Binomial name
Cerura liturata
(Walker, 1855)
Synonyms
  • Cerura arikana Matsumura, 1927
  • Gerura liturata Walker, 1855
  • Neocerura liturata Kiriakoff, 1968

Description

It is a pure white moth. Palpi are black. Collar and thorax spotted with black. Abdomen may be banded or completely suffused with black, leaving a white patch with a black semicircular mark on the last abdominal segment. Forewings with two waved sub-basal lines from the costa to median nervure, some black spots below the median nervure. A highly waved antemedial band, three waved postmedial lines and a waved medial line present. There is a black line on discocellulars surrounded by a black ring mark. Hindwings are more or less suffused with fuscous. There are two indistinct medial lines and a series of marginal black spots.[2]

The larvae feed on Flacourtiaceae, Populus and Terminalia species.[3]

References
  1. "Cerura liturata Walker". Digital Moths of Japan. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  2. Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. "Neocerura Kiriakoff". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
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