Sewa orbiferata

Sewa orbiferata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Sewa
Species: S. orbiferata
Binomial name
Sewa orbiferata
(Walker, 1862)
Synonyms
  • Abraxas orbiferata Walker, 1862
  • Macrocilix orbiferata
  • Argyris insignata Moore, [1868]
  • Abraxas orbiferata cilicoides Snellen, 1889

Sewa orbiferata is a moth in the Drepanidae family. It was described by Walker in 1862.[1] It is found in northern India, northern Burma, Malaysia, Borneo, Java and China (Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian).[2]

Adults are white, the forewings with four cinereous obliquely quadrate spots on the costa and an irregular broad discal transverse band, which is transversed by two short wavy streaks and a submarginal series of small spots. The marginal line is blackish. The hindwings are suffused with orange-yellow on the lower part of the exterior border and there is a brownish-cinereous submarginal band, maculated anteriorly and traversed posteriorly by two parallel white lines, beneath which are three short black streaks. Two similar streaks are found above it on the abdominal margin.[3]

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