Semiothisa eleonora

Semiothisa eleonora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Semiothisa
Species: S. eleonora
Binomial name
Semiothisa eleonora
(Villers, 1789)
Synonyms
  • Semiothisa (Godonela) eleonora (Cramer, 1780)
  • Godonela eleonora (Cramer, [1780])
  • Phalaena eleonora Cramer, [1780]
  • Semiothisa fasciosaria Hübner, [1823]
  • Phalaena fasciata Fabricius, 1775
  • Macaria fasciata (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Chiasmia eleonora (Cramer, [1780])

Semiothisa eleonora is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in south-west Asia, including India, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

Description

Wingspan is about 42mm. Fore wings with outer margin slightly angled at vein 4. Male with the hind tibia dilated. Male slaty greyish in color. Palpi, antennae and abdomen orange colored except on dorsum. Fore wings with indistinct curved and waved antemedial line. A broad white medial band not reaching costa, with a line beyond it bent outwards below the costa and nearly met by a fuscous orange-speckled blotch from costa. Cilia whitish, fuscous below apex. Hind wings with broad medial white band enclosing a speck at end of cell, and with a dark line on its outer edge, beyond which are two orange blotches irrorated with black. Lower and often the upper with a black patch at center. Cilia white. Ventral side with orange wing base.[1]

Female more irrorated with fuscous. Often suffused with rufous, and with pale band grey. Cilia fuscous. Ventral side with orange outer area and white blotches. Larva greenish, with dorsal and sublateral yellow stripes or brown with white stripes.

Paired brush organs, which are used as pheromone producing hormones are found at ventral junction of femur and tibia of the hind leg.[2]

Larva is a pest, known to attack Mimosa rubicaulis and Acacia concinna.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "Brush organs of male semiothisa eleonora". EurekaMag. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Semiothisa eleonora Stoll". ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
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