Acronicta pruinosa
| Acronicta pruinosa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Acronicta |
| Species: | A. pruinosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Acronicta pruinosa (Guenée, 1852) | |
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Acronicta pruinosa is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Sri Lanka, the Himalaya, east to Japan and Taiwan south to Burma and Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java and New Guinea.[1]
Description
Wingspan with 44m in male and 46mm in female. Palpi upturned in both sexes, and possess short third joint. In male, head and thorax greyish white. Thorax clothed with scales. Abdomen whitish, with ochreous tinge at base, where fuscous towards extremity. Fore wings whitish grey, with sub-basal and antemedial indistinct double lines present. Orbicular large, round white, whereas reniform with black outline, its inner margin double. Postmedial double lunulate line filled with white and incurved at vein 2 and with fuscous suffused beyond it. There is a series of small marginal lunules can be seen. Cilia chequered fuscous and white. Hind wings slightly whitish suffused with fuscous, and with traces of a postmedial line. Underside with a cell-spot and a patch on costa above it with a maculate postmedial line. In female, hind wings are fuscous brown, fore wings similar to male.[2]
Larva yellow with black spots. First abdominal segment with a median dorsal rounded protuberance close covered apically with short black hairs. Head and prothoracic shield are brown. The larvae feed on Elaeagnus species.[3]
References
- ↑ "Acronicta pruinosa Guenée, 1852". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Acronicta pruinosa Guenee". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 2 August 2016.