Serrodes campana explained

Serrodes campana is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852.[1] It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to eastern Australia, Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia. It is also present in Japan, Korea and Sri Lanka. The adult is a fruit piercer, but also feeds on flower nectar.[2]

Description

The wingspan is about 80 mm. Head, thorax and basal and outer area of forewings brown and markings larger than other species. Forewings with a sub-basal dark red-brown spot on the costa, with a line from its lower edge. A similar antemedial spot and large lunule found below the cell with a highly excurved line from its lower edge. Reniform broken up into a number of tessellated spots with pale edges, and with rufous marks on the costa above it. A double straight postmedial line angled below the costa. Abdomen and hindwings are fuscous. Hindwings have traces of a medial pale line. Cilia paler at apex and anal angle.[3]

Larva ochreous blue grey with bluish-black speckles. The first abdominal segment black and swollen. All the legs are ochreous. The larvae feed on Lepisanthes, Nephelium, Sapindus, Schleichera and Acer species.[4]

Subspecies

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.today/20120803082241/http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/2875e995-feda-471f-b1c7-6ced146f15eb Australian Faunal Directory
  2. Web site: Herbison-Evans . Don . Crossley . Stella . amp . 29 January 2015 . Serrodes campana Guenée, 1852 . Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths . 22 January 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 . Serrodes campana Guenée . The Moths of Borneo . 22 January 2019.