Ophiusa trapezium

Ophiusa trapezium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Ophiusa
Species:	O. trapezium
Binomial name
	Ophiusa trapezium; (Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
	Ophiodes trapezium Guenée, 1852; Ophisma circumferens Walker, 1865; Ophiusa circumferens (Walker, 1865); Ophisma cognata Walker, 1865; Ophiusa cognata (Walker, 1865); Ophiodes adusta Moore, 1882; Ophiusa adusta (Moore, 1882); Minucia prunicolor Moore, 1885; Ophiusa prunicolor (Moore, 1885); Ophiusa kebea Bethune-Baker, 1906; Anua trapezium Guenée; Holloway, 1976; Ophiusa circumferens (Walker, 1865);

Ophiusa trapezium is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka to Queensland, the Bismarck Islands and New Caledonia. Adults are fruit piercers.^[1]

Description

Wingspan 66mm,. Head and thorax bright rufous. Shaft of antennae whitish. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Fore wings bright rufous suffused with purplish as far as the postmedial line and beyond the submarginal line. There is an outwardly oblique antemedial line jointed at inner margin by the obliquely waved postmedial line. The reniform with rufous outline. A double sub-marginal straight line and marginal dentate line. Hind wings brownish ochreous. The inner area clothed with fuscous hair. A broad diffused sub-marginal fuscous band present. Ventral side brownish ochreous. Fore wings with fuscous cell and a submarginal patch.^[2]

Larvae have been reared on Melaleuca species (Myrtaceae) and Melastoma malabathricum (Melastomataceae).^[3]

Gallery

Female, dorsal view
Female, ventral view
Male, dorsal view
Male, ventral view

References

^ "Ophiusa trapezium Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 13 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.
^ Leong, T. M., 2009. Late instar larva and metamorphosis of Ophiusa trapezium (Guenée) in Singapore (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Catocalinae). Nature in Singapore, 2: 203–207

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[1] "Ophiusa trapezium Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 13 August 2016.

[2] 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.

[3] Leong, T. M., 2009. Late instar larva and metamorphosis of Ophiusa trapezium (Guenée) in Singapore (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Catocalinae). Nature in Singapore, 2: 203–207

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Ophiusa trapezium

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Ophiusa
Species:	O. trapezium
Binomial name
*Ophiusa trapezium* (Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
Ophiodes trapezium Guenée, 1852 Ophisma circumferens Walker, 1865 Ophiusa circumferens (Walker, 1865) Ophisma cognata Walker, 1865 Ophiusa cognata (Walker, 1865) Ophiodes adusta Moore, 1882 Ophiusa adusta (Moore, 1882) Minucia prunicolor Moore, 1885 Ophiusa prunicolor (Moore, 1885) Ophiusa kebea Bethune-Baker, 1906 Anua trapezium Guenée; Holloway, 1976 Ophiusa circumferens (Walker, 1865)