Zurobata vacillans

Zurobata vacillans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Zurobata
Species:	Z. vacillans
Binomial name
	Zurobata vacillans; (Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
	Zurobata aequalis (Walker, 1864); Zurobata inaequalis (Walker, 1864); Zurobata irrecta (Walker, 1865); Zurobata niviapex (Walker, 1865); Zurobata selenicula (Snellen, 1880); Xanthoptera seleniocula Snellen, 1880;

Zurobata vacillans is a moth of the family Erebidae.^[1] It is found in Oriental tropics of India, Sri Lanka,^[2] Taiwan and New Guinea.^[3]^[4]

Caterpillar is unique in having host plants rather than typical green plants. Larva also feeds on fungus on dead leaves, several lichens, Coccoidea.

Gallery

^ "Species Details : Zurobata vacillans Walker, 1864". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
^ "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Academia. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
^ "Pachyrhabda Meyrick, 1897". ftp.funet.fi. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
^ "Zurobata vacillans Walker". jpmothi. Retrieved 28 March 2018.

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