Biology:Anomis nigritarsis

Short description: Species of moth

Anomis nigritarsis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Scoliopteryginae
Genus:	Anomis
Species:	A. nigritarsis
Binomial name
Anomis nigritarsis (Walker 1858)
Synonyms
Anomis albipuncta Rusicada nigritarsis Walker, [1858] Butler, 1886 Snellen, 1880 Anomis ambonensis Anomis amboinensis Swinhoe, 1920 Gonitis xanthochroa Swinhoe, 1920 Prout, 1929 Anomis irene

Anomis nigritarsis is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India , China (Hainan), Taiwan, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Queensland, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.

Adults of ssp. nigritarsis are uniform greyish red, of ssp. albipuncta dark, dull, brick-red and xanthochroa dark and mottled with broad areas of paler colour.

The larvae feed on Hibiscus and Urena species.

Subspecies

• Anomis nigritarsis (Sri Lanka, India, Hainan, Taiwan, Borneo, Java)
• Anomis nigritarsis albipuncta Snellen, 1880 (Sulawesi, Moluccas, Queensland, New Caledonia)
• Anomis nigritarsis xanthochroa Butler, 1886 (Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga)

References

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