Risoba repugnans explained

Risoba repugnans is a species of moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1865.

Distribution

It is found from India and Sri Lanka to the Solomon Islands.[1]

Description

It has a wingspan of 40 mm. Head brown. Thorax and abdomen brownish white. Forewings brownish grey with a basal white patch slightly suffused with bright rufous. There are indistinct waved antemedial, postmedial, and sub-marginal lines. The orbicular is a speck, whereas reniform white with rufous center and edge. A large apical rufous patch with whitish lunule found on its inner side. Some rufous patches with white edges found on outer part of inner margin. A marginal series of dark specks present. Hindwings white with the fuscous outer are and ventrally with cell spot.[2]

Subspecies

Biology

The larvae had been recorded on Melastoma sp.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nkis.info/nkis/extaustaxonshow.cgi?uid=guest&tax=140811&lang=g Naturkundliches Informationssystem
  2. 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.

  3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45926#page/12/mode/thumb Biodiversitylibrary.org: Pagenstecher, 1899. Die Lepidopterenfauna des Bismarck-Archipels. Zoologica Hft. 27-29.1-267. 2 pl.
  4. Web site: Holloway . Jeremy Daniel . Risoba repugnans Walker . The Moths of Borneo . 8 August 2016.