Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Noctuoidea Genus Avatha Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Family Erebidae Scientific name Avatha bubo Rank Species | |
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Avatha bubo is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in Sundaland, Sulawesi, Seram, throughout India, Sri Lanka and Andaman Islands.
Description
Wingspan about 56mm. Males with non-distorted sub-costal neuration of fore wings and without sexual patches on fore and hind wing. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. Head, thorax and fore wings purplish grey. Fore wings with medial and outer area palest. The black lunules on the antemedial and postmedial lines extremely large and produced at their angles. The lines more distinct and dentate. Some pale specks on the costa. Hind wings with a diffused pale streak near with a medial maculate line.
Larva speckled and mottled, with ‘muddy’, lichen-greenish grey all over. The larvae feed on the flowers and young leaves of Nephelium species.