Catoria sublavaria

Catoria sublavaria is a moth of the family Geometridae described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in the tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, towards New Guinea, to the Bismarck Islands and Taiwan.

Catoria sublavaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Catoria
Species:
C. sublavaria
Binomial name
Catoria sublavaria
(Guenee, 1857)[1]
Synonyms
  • boarmia sublavaria Guenee, 1857
  • boarmia spilotaria Snellen, 1881

Description

Its wingspan is about 40–45 mm. Forewings with vein 10 and 11 stalked in male, sometimes connected with vein 12, but in female with vein 11 anastomosing (fusing) or coincident with vein 12. Body greyish white. Frons and palpi black. Wings irrorated (sprinkled) with pale fuscous spots. Forewings with antemedial, both wings with medial, postmedial, submarginal and marginal specks series. There are traces of a ring-spot at end of cell. Ventral side fuscous, with very large black cell-spots and white marginal patches at apex and middle of each wing.[2]

Larva cylindrical, a shining black with a faint greenish tinge. It rests slightly curved on a leaf edge. Pupation is in a silken cell on the ground or between two leaves.[3]

The larvae feed on Alseodaphne and Excoecaria species.[4]

Subspecies
  • Catoria sublavaria sublavaria
  • Catoria sublavaria psimythota Prout, 1929
  • Catoria sublavaria spilotaria (Snellen, 1881)
  • Catoria sublavaria subnata Prout, 1929
  • Catoria sublavaria tenax Prout, 1929

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Catoria sublavaria (Guenee 1857)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on July 25, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  2. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. "Catoria sublavaria Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  4. Savela, Markku. "Catoria Moore, [1887]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 25, 2018.


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