Sympis rufibasis

Sympis rufibasis is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Borneo east to New Guinea, the Solomons and Queensland.[1]

Sympis rufibasis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Sympis
Species:	S. rufibasis
Binomial name
Sympis rufibasis Guenée, 1852

Description

Its wingspan is 48 to 50 mm. The male has an orange-red head and thorax. Abdomen reddish brown. Forewings with orange-red basal area, bounded by an oblique blue line. The outer area reddish brown with a large scarlet lunule beyond the cell and a white speck on the costa above it. An indistinct, irregularly dentate, sub-marginal line and a marginal specks series present. Hindwings fuscous with incomplete medial white band and waved marginal line. Ventral side almost entirely grey suffused. A crenulate postmedial line present. Female lack scarlet lunule on forewings.[2]

Larva darkish, olive green brown with a distinct pale yellow stripe which runs along each side and extends from the head to the anal prolegs. The larvae feed on Dimocarpus, Litchi and Nephelium species.[3]

References

1. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (19 August 2018). "Sympis rufibasis Guenée, 1852". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
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. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Sympis rufibasis Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 15 August 2016.