Serrodes campana

Serrodes campana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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 family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852.[1] 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.[2]

Description

The wingspan is about 80 mm. Head, thorax and basal and outer area of forewings brown and markings larger than other species. Forewings 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 hindwings are fuscous. Hindwings have traces of a medial pale line. Cilia paler at apex and anal angle.[3]

Larva ochreous blue grey with bluish-black speckles. The first abdominal segment black and swollen.[2] All the legs are ochreous. The larvae feed on Lepisanthes, Nephelium, Sapindus, Schleichera and Acer species.[4]

Subspecies

  • Serrodes campana campana
  • Serrodes campana callipepla Prout, 1929
  • Female, dorsal view
    Female, dorsal view
  • Female, ventral view
    Female, ventral view
  • Male, dorsal view
    Male, dorsal view
  • Male, ventral view
    Male, ventral view

References

  1. ^ Australian Faunal Directory
  2. ^ a b Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (29 January 2015). "Serrodes campana Guenée, 1852". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  3. ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Vol. Moths–II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. ^ Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Serrodes campana Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 22 January 2019.


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