Eudocima hypermnestra

Eudocima hypermnestra
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Eudocima
Species: E. hypermnestra
Binomial name
Eudocima hypermnestra
(Cramer, 1780)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena hypermnestra Cramer, 1780

Eudocima hypermnestra is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in China, Thailand, Taiwan, India and Sri Lanka.[1]

Description

Wingspan is about 88mm. Palpi with third joint long and spatulate at extremity. Fore wings not produced at apex. Outer margin rounded. Male has yellowish green head and thorax. Palpi, collar and tegula marked with greyish. Abdomen orange and anal tuft brownish. Fore wings with yellowish green, with dark striae. There are some grey patches on inner and outer areas. There is an oblique rufous antemedial line and a very oblique rufous line runs from costa before apex to center of inner margin and curved below the costa, where it is joined by a dark streak from the apex. Hind wings orange, with a black spot at lower angle of cell and another above anal angle. The marginal area black from apex to vein 2 and with marginal and cilial white spots, its inner edge waved. Ventral side of fore wigs with white postmedial band.[2]

Female

Female with large and small white rufous striated patches and spots found on fore wings below and beyond cell, at outer angle and below apex.

Caterpillar

References

  1. "Eudocima hypermnestra". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  2. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.


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