Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Callopistria maillardi | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Callopistria Rank Species | |
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Similar Anticarsia irrorata, Callopistria, Polydesma umbricola, Achaea catella, Eublemma anachoresis | ||
Callopistria maillardi is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species can be found throughout central, eastern and southern Africa, including the islands of the Indian Ocean, Yemen, Chagos islands, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, southern China, in Hawaii, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the Society Islands, Sulawesi, as well as Queensland in Australia.
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Description
Wingspan is about 40mm. Antennae of male with three spatulate hairs on the curved portion. Legs very densely clothed with long hair. Head and thorax clothed with dark ferrugineous and white hair. Abdomen paler with ferrous colored dorsal tufts. Fore wings more varied with reddish. The veins and lines reddish. Antemedial line more angulated. There is a medial crenulate black line. Ventral side of hind wings with more crenulated postmedial line.
Larva dark greenish with a dorsal row of white-outlined dark chevrons, where each pointing towads head. The anal chevron is slightly larger and more strongly colored than the rest.
Ecology
The larvae feed on Adiantum, Lygodium, Pellaea, Nephrolepis biserrata, and Asplenium nidus.