Dysphania sagana

Yellow moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Dysphania
Species:	D. sagana
Binomial name
Dysphania sagana (Druce, 1882)[1]
Synonyms
Euschema sagana Druce, 1882 Euschema selangora Swinhoe, 1893 Dysphania isolata Warren, 1902

Dysphania sagana, the yellow moth, is a moth in the Geometridae family. It is found in southern Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo.

The basal half of the forewings is chrome-yellow, while the outer half is bluish black, crossed by two bands of semitransparent white spots. The hindwings are chrome-yellow with a black spot at the end of the cell. The apex and a submarginal row of spots are black. The head, thorax and abdomen are yellow.^[2]

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Carallia species.^[3]

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  Illustration
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  Seen at Angkor Butterfly Center
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  Photograph taken in Sihanoukville, Cambodia

See also

• Dysphania militaris
• Dysphania percota

References

1. Dysphania at funet
2. Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London
3. The Moths of Borneo