Biology:Hulodes caranea

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Short description: Species of moth

Hulodes caranea
Hulodes caranea @ Thrippunithura.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Hulodes
Species:
H. caranea
Binomial name
Hulodes caranea
Synonyms
  • Phalaena caranea Cramer, 1780
  • Hypopyra fusifascia Walker, 1869
  • Hypopyra mediomaculata Warren, 1913
  • Hulodes angulata Prout, 1928
  • Hylodes caranea

Hulodes caranea is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. It is found from India , Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Java, Hong Kong to Queensland and New Guinea, it is also found on the Marianas and Carolines.[1]

Description

From Kannur, Kerala, India

The wingspan is about 84–90 mm. Hindwings with crenulate outer margin and produced to a point at vein 4. Male fuscous brown. Wings suffused with purplish as far as the curved submarginal line which runs from the apex to inner margin of hindwings, the area beyond it ochreous brown with a marginal specks series. Forewings with traces of antemedial and postmedial waved lines and brown centered ochreous lunule at end of cell. Hindwings with traces of antemedial waved line. Ventral side with crenulate medial line. Hindwings with black cell spot and spot at middle of costa ventrally. Female pale ochreous brown, with some dark brown suffusion inside the double oblique line.[2]

Larva olive greenish in color with fuscous speckles and paler below. It has two pointed dorsal tubercles on anal somite. Dorsal and lateral bands of black streaks and greenish white blotches found on back and sides. Stigmata black and tubercles reddish. The larvae feed on Acanthaceae and Apocynaceae species.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q10769532 entry