Hypopyra vespertilio
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| Hypopyra vespertilio, or a closely related species | |
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| Hypopyra vespertilio, mounted | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Erebinae |
| Tribe: | Hypopyrini |
| Genus: | Hypopyra |
| Species: | H. vespertilio |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypopyra vespertilio (Fabricius, 1787)[1] | |
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Hypopyra vespertilio is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in China, Korea, Japan (Honshu), India (Maharastra, Jammu and Kaschmir, West Bengal), Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi.[2]
The wingspan is 68-76 mm.[3] The wings are grey suffused with slight fuscous brown. The forewings have the stigma usually reduced to spots or to two spots on discocellulars. The antemedial line is excurved below the costa then oblique to the inner margin. There is a double postmedial line, angled below the costa. The postmedial line is crenulate. The hindwings are fuscous brown with antemedial oblique lines. The medial and submarginal lines are crenulate and the inner margin is crimson. The darkest form is vespertilio which has the male dark brown; the costal and outer areas of fore wing suffused with grey and olive; the stigma most developed; female much paler and greyer.[4] The adult has been recorded as fruit-piercer.
The larvae feed on Albizia, Acacia, Wisteria and possibly Camellia species. They are pale grey.[5]
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