Avatha complens

Avatha complens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Erebinae
Tribe: Cocytiini
Genus: Avatha
Species: A. complens
Binomial name
Avatha complens
(Walker, 1858)[1]
Synonyms
  • Hypaetra complens Walker, 1858
  • Cropia glaucofascia Walker, 1858
  • Cropia onerata Walker, [1863]
  • Hypaetra ruinosa Swinhoe, 1905
  • Avatha dohertyi (Holland, 1900)
  • Pterochaeta dohertyi Holland, 1900
  • Hypaetra stigmata Moore, 1877
  • Avatha tripunctata (Pagenstecher, 1888)
  • Athyma tripunctata Pagenstecher, 1888

Avatha complens [2] is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found from the north-eastern Himalayas, the Andamans and Sundaland to the Solomon Islands. The habitat consists of dry, sandy heath forests and lower montane forests.

Adults are highly variable, as well as sexually dimorphic. Both males and females have a distinctly oblique band between the antemedial and postmedial black zones. In males, this band is pale rufous brown, while it is grey in females.[3]

References

  1. ↑ taxapad.com
  2. ↑ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.
  3. ↑ The Moths of Borneo
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