Biology:Dordura aliena
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Dordura aliena [1] is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the India , Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and New Guinea.[2]
Description
Wingspan is about 40mm. Antennae of male with long branches on the outer sides, very short branches and long stiff bristles on the inner side. A tuft of hair found on upperside of shaft near base. Body reddish brown. Head and collar whitish. Palpi fuscous at sides. Thorax purplish fuscous and abdomen fuscous. Fore wings are purplish fuscous, with very indistinct waved subbasal and antemedial lines. A dark spot can be seen in cell. A postmedial line angled outwards below costa, irregularly excurved beyond cell, then bent inwards to below the narrow reniform spot. Reniform straight and double to inner margin. There are some white specks on costa and a sub-triangular chocolate mark with pale edges on costa before apex. Postmedial line arising near apex, and is slightly dentate and very obliquely curved to vein 2, then straight to inner margin. Hind wings with apical area fuscous. Medial and postmedial ill-defined, waved, dark lines and submarginal series of black specks. Female with less distinct fore wing markings and triangular patch almost obsolete.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae . CRC Press. ISBN:0-916846-45-8, ISBN:978-0-916846-45-9.
- ↑ "Dordura aliena Walker". The Moths of Borneo. http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/miscellaneous_i/miscellaneousi_9_1.php. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. pp. 558. http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/207319. Retrieved 4 July 2016.[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ "Dordura aliena (Walker, 1865)". Butterfly House. http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/aliena.html. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q5297640 entry
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