Genus Cerura Rank Species | ||
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Similar Cerura scitiscripta, Cerura erminea, Cerura, Notodontidae, Cerura vinula | ||
Cerura liturata is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found from the Oriental Tropics of India, Sri Lanka to Sundaland.
Description
It is a pure white moth. Palpi are black. Collar and thorax spotted with black. Abdomen may be banded or completely suffused with black, leaving a white patch with a black semi-circular mark on the last abdominal segment. Fore wings with two waved sub-basal lines from the costa to median nervure, some black spots below the median nervure. A highly waved antemedial band, three waved postmedial lines and a waved medial line present. There is a black line on discocellulars surrounded by a black ring-mark. Hind wings are more or less suffused with fiscous. There are two indistinct medial lines and a series of marginal black spots.
The larvae feed on Flacourtiaceae, Populus and Terminalia species.