Ercheia cyllaria

Ercheia cyllaria is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779. It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,[2] Japan, Indochina, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Seram and the Kai Islands.

Ercheia cyllaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Ercheia
Species:	E. cyllaria
Binomial name
Ercheia cyllaria (Cramer, 1779)[1]
Synonyms
Noctua cyllaria Cramer, 1782 Achaea cyllota Guenée, 1852 Achaea fusifera Walker, 1858 Achaea signivitta Walker, 1858 Achaea polychroma Walker, 1858 Achaea atrivitta Walker, 1864 Achaea purpureilinea Walker, 1864 Achaea semipallida Walker, 1864 Ercheia tenebrosa Moore, 1867 Melipotis gundiana Felder, 1874 Melipotis costipannosa Moore, 1882 Ercheia pannosa Moore, 1883 Ercheia uniformis Moore, 1883 Ercheia anvira Swinhoe, 1918 Ercheia cyllota (Guenée, 1852) Ercheia costipannosa (Moore, 1882) Ercheia gundiani (Felder, 1874) Ercheia semipallida (Walker, 1864) Ercheia atrivitta (Walker, 1864) Ercheia polychroma (Walker, 1858) Ercheia signivitta (Walker, 1858) Ercheia fusifera (Walker, 1858) Ercheia charon Butler, 1880 Ercheia collustrans Lucas, 1894

Description

Its head, thorax and forewings are pale reddish brown. The collar and patagia are often streaked with black. Forewings with indistinct, waved antemedial line and a very much excurved postmedial line beyond the cell. A waved sub-marginal line is present. Orbicular is a speck and reniform is indistinctly dark outlined. Abdomen and hindwings fuscous black. Hindwings with three medial white spots, which may be disconnected and the costal spot obsolescent or conjoined into a band. A spot near center of outer margin. Cilia white at apex and outer angle. Ventral side ochreous white, irrorated (sprinkled) with black. Forewings with oblique crenulate postmedial line and broad sub-marginal diffused band. Hindwings similar, but with a lunule at end of cell and the line more irregular. Colours and spots can vary in subspecies.[3]

The larvae feed on Asparagus, Brassica, Dalbergia and Grewia species.[4]

References

1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Ercheia cyllaria (Cramer 1779)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 15, 2019. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
2. "此為 Ercheia cyllaria". Taiwan Moth Information Center.
3. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
4. "Ercheia cyllaria Cramer". The Moths of Borneo.