Biology:Olepa ocellifera
Olepa ocellifera | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Olepa |
Species: | O. ocellifera
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Binomial name | |
Olepa ocellifera (Walker, 1855)
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Olepa ocellifera is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855.[1] It is found in India and Sri Lanka.[2]
Description
Ths species closely resembles the much more widely distributed Olepa ricini, and differs only in the presence of a chain-like series of small yellow-banded black spots in between the large spots on the forewings, which are lacking in O. ricini. Head and thorax dark greyish brown. Collar fringed with crimson and with a pair of pale-ringed black spots. Tegulae with two pairs and vertex of thorax with one similar spot. Abdomen crimson with a series of short dorsal black bands and lateral spots. Forewings are fuscous brown with very numerous pale-ringed black spots in the interspaces. Hindwing crimson, with ante-medial, medial, post-medial and marginal bands and more or less conjoined blotches. Larva dark brown in body colour with white and dorsal and lateral tufts of long dark hair.[3]
References
- ↑ Savela, Markku. "Olepa ocellifera (Walker, 1855)". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/olepa/#ocellifera. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
- ↑ Witt, Thomas J.; Müller, Günter C.; Kravchenko, Vasiliy D.; Miller, Michael A.; Hausmann, Axel; Speidel, Wolfgang (2005). "A new Olepa species from Israel (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)". Nachrichtenblatt der Bayerischen Entomologen 54 (3/4): 101–115. http://www.zsm.mwn.de/docs_zsm/htdocs/lep/Olepa.pdf.
- ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up.
Wikidata ☰ Q7086412 entry
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