Isturgia catalaunaria

Isturgia catalaunaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Ennominae
Tribe: Macariini
Genus: Isturgia
Species: I. catalaunaria
Binomial name
Isturgia catalaunaria
(Guenée, 1858)
Synonyms
  • Psamatodes catalaunaria Guenée, 1858
  • Panagra cogitata Walker, 1863
  • Tephrina dataria Walker, 1861
  • Tephrina defectaria Walker, 1861
  • Semiothisa largificaria Möschler, 1887
  • Isturgia ningwuana (Wehrli, 1940)
  • Aspilates occupata Walker, 1862
  • Aspilates proxantharia Walker, 1863

Isturgia catalaunaria is a moth of the family Geometridae.

Distribution

It is found in most countries of Africa, from Morocco and Egypt south until South Africa, in Spain and in Sri Lanka.[1]

Description

Wingspan of male 28mm and female 30mm. Male with long antennae branches, with simple shaft at extremity. Male whitish, thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous. Head orange. Fore wings with nearly erect antemedial dark line. A medial band incurved below cell and often joined to the antemedial line by blotches on inner area. There is a postmedial line incurved below vein 4 and with a dark spot beyond it at middle. The marginal area suffused wit purplish grey. Hind wings with sinous medial line. Straight postmedial line present, where the area beyond it suffused with purplish fuscous. Ventral side slightly with fulvous. Bands broader, especially the postmedial. Female much similar to male, but regionally few color variations can be seen.[2]

Larva known to feed on plants like Rhynchosia totta, Indigofera daleoides, Caesalpinia sp, and Delonix regia.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Afromoths
  2. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Isturgia catalaunaria, (Guenée, 1858)". African Moths. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
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