Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Noctuoidea Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae | |
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Autoba abrupta is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in Papua New Guinea, Thailand, and Australia The species is largely used by the name Eublemma abrupta in Indiam and Sri Lankan texts.
Description
Wingspan is about 20mm. Body pale red-brown. Head and collar dark chestnut in color. Fore wings with some dark specks found in the cell. A postmedial chestnut line can be seen, which is highly angled at vein 6 and double from there to inner margin. Two sub-marginal curved black and white specks series present. An apical pale patch, with some dark suffusion round it. Hind wings with double oblique medial line, and postmedial and submarginal series of black and white specks can be seen. Ventral side grey, suffused with reddish and irrorated with black. Fore wings basal area is orange in color.
Larva reddish with black streaks, lateral dots and yellow transverse stripes. Paired oblique white stripes run across 9th and 10th somites. Somites 5,6,7 and 11 with dorsal prominences and somites 3,4 and 5 each with four spatulate dorsal filaments. Pupa in a small cocoon attached to a leaf.