Serrodes campana

Serrodes campana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Serrodes
Species:	S. campana
Binomial name
Serrodes campana Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
Serrodes nigha Guenée, 1852 Serrodes callipepla Prout, 1929

Serrodes campana is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to eastern Australia, Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia. It is also present in Japan, Korea and Sri Lanka. The adult is a fruit piercer, but also feeds on flower nectar.

Description

The wingspan is about 80 mm. Head, thorax and basal and outer area of fore wings brown and markings larger than other species. Fore wings with a sub-basal dark red-brown spot on the costa, with a line from its lower edge. A similar antemedial spot and large lunule found below the cell with a highly excurved line from its lower edge. Reniform broken up into a number of tessellated spots with pale edges, and with rufous marks on the costa above it. A double straight postmedial line angled below the costa. Abdomen and hind wings are fuscous. Hind wings have traces of a medial pale line. Cilia paler at apex and anal angle.

Larva ochreous blue-grey with bluish black speckles. The first abdominal segment black and swollen. All the legs are ochreous. The larvae feed on Lepisanthes, Nephelium, Sapindus, Schleichera and Acer species. They are ochreous blue-grey, finely and densely speckled with bluish black, the spiracular zone of the abdomen forming a darker but irregular band with a more rufous edging above and below. All the legs are ochreous.

Subspecies

• Serrodes campana campana
• Serrodes campana callipepla Prout, 1929

Gallery

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