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    Speiredonia mutabilis

    Topic: Biology

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    Short description: Species of moth

    Speiredonia mutabilis
    Noctuid Moth (Speiredonia mutabilis) (8405264981).jpg
    Scientific classification edit
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Arthropoda
    Class: Insecta
    Order: Lepidoptera
    Superfamily: Noctuoidea
    Family: Erebidae
    Genus: Speiredonia
    Species:
    S. mutabilis
    Binomial name
    Speiredonia mutabilis
    (Fabricius, 1794)
    Synonyms
    • Noctua mutabilis Fabricius, 1794
    • Sericia anops Guenée, 1852
    From Sri Lanka

    Speiredonia mutabilis is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, from Sundaland eastwards to Australia, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga.[1]

    Description

    Its wingspan is about 70–78 mm. Adult blackish brown with purplish tinged. Forewings with waved sub-basal, antemedial, and medial black lines. There is a spot in cell and a double post-medial waved line excurved from vein 2 to lower angle o cell. An indistinct sinuous sub-marginal double line also present. Hindwings with medial lunulate line and traces of a sinuous double sub-marginal line.[2]

    The larvae feed on Acacia species.[3]

    References

    1. ↑ Herbison-Evans, Don; Crossley, Stella (10 April 2017). "Speiredonia mutabilis (Fabricius, 1794)". http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/mutabilis.html. Retrieved 22 January 2019. 
    2. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up. 
    3. ↑ Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Speiredonia mutabilis Fabricius". http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/hulodini/hulodini_3_6.php. Retrieved January 22, 2019. 

    External links

    See also Wikidata entry Q7575786.




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