Hypopyra vespertilio

Hypopyra vespertilio
	Hypopyra vespertilio, or a closely related species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Hypopyra
Species:	H. vespertilio
Binomial name
	Hypopyra vespertilio; (Fabricius, 1787)[1]
Synonyms
	Noctua vespertilio Fabricius, 1787; Hypopyra distans Moore, 1882; Hypopyra dulcina Felder and Rogenhofer, 1874; Hypopyra extricans Walker, 1858; Spirama hypopyroides Walker, 1863; Hypopyra pallida Moore, 1883; Hypopyra pandia Felder and Rogenhofer, 1874; Hypopyra shiva Guenée, 1852; Hypopyra signata Walker, 1869;

Hypopyra vespertilio is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787. It is found in China, Korea, Honshu in Japan, India (Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal), Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi.[2]

Description

The wingspan is 74–90 mm in male and 72–104 mm in female.[3] Male has minutely fasciculate antennae. Male with an erectile tuft of long hair from femur-tibial joint of forelegs. Tibia and hind tarsi not fringed with long hair, nor the hindwings clothed with long woolly hair on ventral side. The wings are grey suffused with slight fuscous brown. The forewings have the stigma usually reduced to spots or to two spots on discocellulars. The antemedial line is excurved below the costa then oblique to the inner margin. There is a double postmedial line, angled below the costa. The postmedial line is crenulate. The hindwings are fuscous brown with antemedial oblique lines. The medial and submarginal lines are crenulate and the inner margin is crimson. The darkest form is vespertilio which has the male dark brown; the costal and outer areas of forewing suffused with grey and olive; the stigma most developed; female much paler and greyer. The adult has been recorded as fruit-piercer.[4]

Ecology

The larvae feed on Albizia, Acacia, Wisteria and possibly Camellia species. They are pale grey.[5]

References

Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Hypopyra vespertilio (Fabricius 1787)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 16, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
"Hypopyra unistrigata Guenée, 1852". Naturkundliches Informationssystem. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
"變色夜蛾 Hypopyra vespertilio (Fabricius)". 驚奇山行 [Surprise mountain line]. May 21, 2009. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Hypopyra Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved October 4, 2019.

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[1] Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Hypopyra vespertilio (Fabricius 1787)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 16, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.

[2] "Hypopyra unistrigata Guenée, 1852". Naturkundliches Informationssystem. Retrieved January 16, 2019.

[3] "變色夜蛾 Hypopyra vespertilio (Fabricius)". 驚奇山行 [Surprise mountain line]. May 21, 2009. Retrieved January 16, 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. "Hypopyra Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved October 4, 2019.