Biology:Speiredonia mutabilis

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Short description: Species of moth

Speiredonia mutabilis
Noctuid Moth (Speiredonia mutabilis) (8405264981).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Speiredonia
Species:
S. mutabilis
Binomial name
Speiredonia mutabilis
(Fabricius, 1794)
Synonyms
  • Noctua mutabilis Fabricius, 1794
  • Sericia anops Guenée, 1852
From Sri Lanka

Speiredonia mutabilis is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, from Sundaland eastwards to Australia, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga.[1]

Description

Its wingspan is about 70–78 mm. Adult blackish brown with purplish tinged. Forewings with waved sub-basal, antemedial, and medial black lines. There is a spot in cell and a double post-medial waved line excurved from vein 2 to lower angle o cell. An indistinct sinuous sub-marginal double line also present. Hindwings with medial lunulate line and traces of a sinuous double sub-marginal line.[2]

The larvae feed on Acacia species.[3]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7575786 entry