Plusiodonta coelonota

Plusiodonta coelonota, the snake vine moth,[1] is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Vincenz Kollar in 1844. It is found from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Andaman Islands, Australia, Papua New Guinea, to South and South-East Asia.

Snake vine moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Plusiodonta
Species:
P. coelonota
Binomial name
Plusiodonta coelonota
(Kollar, 1844)
Synonyms
  • Plusia coelonota Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844
  • Plusia agens Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874
  • Plusiodonta chalsytoides Guenée, 1852
  • Deva conducens Walker, 1857

Description

The wingspan is about 25–36 mm. Male with minutely ciliated antennae. Head and collar rufous. Thorax and abdomen greyish brown. Forewings reddish brown suffused with golden bronze and more or less irrorated with bluish grey scales. Indistinct antemedial and medial waved line can be seen. An oblique double sinuous postmedial line angled below the costa. Orbicular and reniform indistinct. There is a very irregularly sinuous sub-marginal golden band with dark edges, which interrupted at vein 3. Hindwings dark fuscous. Cilia pale. Larva purplish black with grey specks and streaks. Somites 7 and 11 with pinkish patches. Head reddish.[2]

The larvae feed on Stephania japonica and Smilax australis plants.[3]

References
  1. "Snake Vine Moth (Plusiodonta coelonota)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  2. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (9 June 2014). "Plusiodonta coelonota (Kollar, 1844)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 22 January 2019.


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