Bastilla fulvotaenia

Bastilla fulvotaenia is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from the Indian subregion and Sri Lanka, Taiwan to Lombok, Seram and Buru. Adult is a fruit-piercer.[2]

Bastilla fulvotaenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Genus:
Bastilla
Species:
B. fulvotaenia
Binomial name
Bastilla fulvotaenia
(Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Ophiusa fulvotaenia Guenée, 1852
  • Ophiusa absorpta Warren, 1913
  • Ophiusa contracta Warren, 1913
  • Ophiusa unipuncta Warren, 1913
  • Parallelia fulvotaenia Guenée; Holloway, 1976
  • Dysgonia unipuncta (Warren, 1913)
  • Dysgonia contracta (Warren, 1913)
  • Dysgonia fulvotaenia (Moore, 1877) [1]

Description

Its wingspan is about 70–80 mm. Males with a cleft running the whole length of the mid-tibia and containing a mass of flocculent scales. Body reddish brown. Forewings with purplish suffused medial band and postmedial line dark throughout, and with an indistinct dentate line beyond it. Hindwings with a medial orange band, which is wide towards costa.[3]

The larvae feed on Glochidion species.

References
  1. Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9
  2. "Bastilla fulvotaenia Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  3. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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