Somera viridifusca

Prominent moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Notodontidae
Genus:	Somera
Species:	S. viridifusca
Binomial name
	Somera viridifusca; Walker, 1855

Somera viridifusca, the prominent moth, is a moth of the family Notodontidae described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in Sri Lanka, Sundaland, the Philippines, Sulawesi, the north-eastern Himalayas, Sikkim in India, Hainan and Yunnan in China[1] and in Taiwan.

Camouflage

Description

Males have brown pedipalps, greenish head and thorax vertices and a fuscous abdomen, with a greenish extremity. The forewings are bright green with a brown patch below and beyond the end of the cell (absent in some specimens), with two subbasal waved dark lines, two antemedial and four postmedial streaks and a single submarginal streak has brownish blotches. The hindwings are fuscous.[2]

The larvae are yellow green with a double yellow dorsal line. The area below the subdorsal stripe is green. The head is greyish white with olive markings. Pupation takes place underground.[3]

References

Savela, Markku. "Somera viridifusca Walker, 1855". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. p. 154 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The Moths of Borneo

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[1] Savela, Markku. "Somera viridifusca Walker, 1855". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 19, 2018.

[2] Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. p. 154 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

[3] The Moths of Borneo