Asota caricae

Asota caricae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Asota
Species: A. caricae
Binomial name
Asota caricae
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Noctua caricae Fabricius, 1775
  • Psephea alciphron Cramer, [1777]
  • Asota euroa Rothschild, 1897
  • Asota anawa Swinhoe, 1903

Asota caricae is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to Queensland and Vanuatu.

The wingspan is 51-58 mm.

The larvae have been recorded on Ficus, Broussonetia, Mesua, Tectona and Shorea species.

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