Erebus hieroglyphica

Erebus hieroglyphica is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the Oriental tropical countries such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Japan, China, Taiwan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Korea. The habitat consist of lowland forests.[2]

Erebus hieroglyphica
From Sri Lanka
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Erebus
Species:
E. hieroglyphica
Binomial name
Erebus hieroglyphica
(Drury, 1773)[1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena hieroglyphica Drury, 1773
  • Erebus hieroglyphicus
  • Argiva celebensis Hopffer, 1874
  • Phalaena hermonia Cramer, 1777
  • Bocana lunaris Walker, 1865
  • Phalaena mygdonia Cramer, 1777
  • Nyctipao tenebratus Prout, 1919
  • Noctua ulula Fabricius, 1775

Description
In Thrippunithura, Kerala.

Its wingspan is about 88 mm. Adults exhibit strong sexual dimorphism. In both sexes there is usually a pale cream to white bar at the costa on the forewings, with a small pale patch in the centre of the wing.[3] They have been reported feeding on the juices of tropical fruit.[4]

Male with vein 3 running to the functional apex of hindwing. The costal fold obsolete, and the small patch with gland. Male with veins 4 to 8 of hindwings moderately developed in the aborted costal area. Body rich blackish brown. Forewings with a whorl-shaped black mark beyond end of cell, bilobed and expanding at head, where it is outlined with blue. An oblique yellow bar runs from costa near apex, and very few show reaching outer margin.[5]

Female has brown body with black stria. Forewings with white oblique bar. Both wings with traces of postmedial band of whitish marks and white spot on forewing above vein 3.[6]

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Erebus hieroglyphicus (Drury 1773)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 15, 2019. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  2. "Erebus hieroglyphica Drury, 1773". India Biodiversity Portal.
  3. The Moths of Borneo
  4. "Erebus hieroglyphica (Drury, 1773)". Naturkundliches Informationssystem. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  5. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  6. "Erebus hieroglyphica Drury". Digital Moths of Japan.


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