Serrodes campana

Serrodes campana is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852.[1] It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to eastern Australia, Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia. It is also present in Japan, Korea and Sri Lanka. The adult is a fruit piercer, but also feeds on flower nectar.[2]

Serrodes campana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Serrodes
Species:
S. campana
Binomial name
Serrodes campana
Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
  • Serrodes nigha Guenée, 1852
  • Serrodes callipepla Prout, 1929

Description

The wingspan is about 80 mm. Head, thorax and basal and outer area of forewings brown and markings larger than other species. Forewings with a sub-basal dark red-brown spot on the costa, with a line from its lower edge. A similar antemedial spot and large lunule found below the cell with a highly excurved line from its lower edge. Reniform broken up into a number of tessellated spots with pale edges, and with rufous marks on the costa above it. A double straight postmedial line angled below the costa. Abdomen and hindwings are fuscous. Hindwings have traces of a medial pale line. Cilia paler at apex and anal angle.[3]

Larva ochreous blue grey with bluish-black speckles. The first abdominal segment black and swollen.[2] All the legs are ochreous. The larvae feed on Lepisanthes, Nephelium, Sapindus, Schleichera and Acer species. They are ochreous blue grey, finely and densely speckled with bluish black, the spiracular zone of the abdomen forming a darker but irregular band with a more rufous edging above and below. All the legs are ochreous.[4]

Subspecies
  • Serrodes campana campana
  • Serrodes campana callipepla Prout, 1929
  • Female, dorsal view
  • Female, ventral view
  • Male, dorsal view
  • Male, ventral view

References
  1. Australian Faunal Directory
  2. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (29 January 2015). "Serrodes campana Guenée, 1852". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  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. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Serrodes campana Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 22 January 2019.


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