Risoba repugnans
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| Risoba repugnans ssp. albistriata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Nolidae |
| Genus: | Risoba |
| Species: | R. repugnans
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| Binomial name | |
| Risoba repugnans (Walker, 1865)
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Risoba repugnans is a species of moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1865.
Distribution
It is found from India and Sri Lanka to the Solomon Islands.[1]
Description
It has a wingspan of 40 mm. Head brown. Thorax and abdomen brownish white. Forewings brownish grey with a basal white patch slightly suffused with bright rufous. There are indistinct waved antemedial, postmedial, and sub-marginal lines. The orbicular is a speck, whereas reniform white with rufous center and edge. A large apical rufous patch with whitish lunule found on its inner side. Some rufous patches with white edges found on outer part of inner margin. A marginal series of dark specks present. Hindwings white with the fuscous outer are and ventrally with cell spot.[2]
Subspecies
- Risoba repugnans repugnans (Walker, 1865)
- Risoba repugnans albistriata (Pagenstecher, 1888) (Bismarck Archipelago)[3]
Biology
The larvae had been recorded on Melastoma sp.[4]
References
- ^ Naturkundliches Informationssystem
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Biodiversitylibrary.org: Pagenstecher, 1899. Die Lepidopterenfauna des Bismarck-Archipels. Zoologica Hft. 27-29.1-267. 2 pl.
- ^ Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Risoba repugnans Walker". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 8 August 2016.