Avatha discolor explained

Avatha discolor [1] is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the Indo-Australian and Pacific tropics to as far east as Henderson Island.[2]

Description

Its wingspan is about 40–46 mm. Males with minutely ciliated antennae and subcostal neuration of forewings not distorted and without sexual patches on forewings and hindwings. Forewings are greyish and fuscous suffused. No spots on costa. The lunule on the antemedial line sometimes obsolescent. A dark spot found in the cell. The postmedial line "S-shaped" beyond the cell with a blackish patch in its upper curve. Hindwings with whitish cilia at apex and near anal angle.[3]

Recorded food plants are Nephelium, Sapindus, and Callicarpa.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae . CRC Press.,
  2. Web site: Herbison-Evans . Don . Crossley . Stella . amp . 17 August 2013 . Avatha discolor (Fabricius, 1794) . Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths . 16 February 2019.
  3. Book: Hampson, G. F. . George Hampson

    . George Hampson . 1894 . The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II . Taylor and Francis . Biodiversity Heritage Library.

  4. Web site: Holloway . Jeremy Daniel . Avatha discolor Fabricius . The Moths of Borneo . 14 August 2016.