Avatha discolor
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Avatha |
| Species: | A. discolor
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| Avatha discolor (Fabricius, 1794)[1]
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Avatha discolor [2] is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian and Pacific tropics to as far east as Henderson Island.[3]
Description
Wingspan is about 40-46mm. Males with minutely ciliated antennae and subcostal neuration of fore wings not distorted and without sexual patches on fore and hind wings. Fore wings are greyish and fuscous suffused. No spots on costa. The lunule on the antemedial line sometimes obsolescent. A dark spot found in the cell. The postmedial line "S-shaped" beyond the cell with a blackish patch in its upper curve. Hind wings with whitish cilia at apex and near anal angle.[4]
Recorded food plants are Nephelium, Sapindus, and Callicarpa.[5]
References
- ^ taxapad.com
- ^ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.
- ^ "Distribution of Avatha discolor (Fabricius, 1794)". Butterfly House. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- ^ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Avatha discolor Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
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