Diarsia ochracea

Diarsia ochracea is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Sri Lanka. It is found where tea is cultivated.[1]

Diarsia ochracea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Genus:
Diarsia
Species:
D. ochracea
Binomial name
Diarsia ochracea
(Walker, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Oxiara ochracea Walker, 1865
  • Oxira ochracea Walker 1865

Description

Its wingspan is about 41 mm. It is an ochreous-greyish-brown or reddish-brown moth. Palpi dark at sides. Forewings with double subbasal and antemedial waved lines. The orbicular and reniform stigmata large in some specimen with a black spot between them and a triangular black spot before orbicular, the reniform often filled in chestnut colour. There is a diffused angled medial fuscous band. A double lunulate curved postmedial line present. A submarginal pale line and marginal crenulate dark line can be seen. Hindwings are fuscous brown or reddish brown.[2][3]

References
  1. Tea: Cultivation to Consumption. Springer. 1992. ISBN 9789401123266. Retrieved 2 August 2016 – via Google Books.
  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. "Diarsia borneochracea sp.n." The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 2 August 2016.


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