Kingdom Animalia Family Erebidae Genus Eudocima Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Tribe Ophiderini Scientific name Eudocima salaminia Rank Species | |
Similar Vandana, Butterflies and moths, Eudocima phalonia, Eudocima materna, Eudocima homaena | ||
Moth that looks like mimics leaf eudocima salaminia fruit piercing moth
The Green fruit-piercing moth, (Eudocima salaminia), is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from India across south-east Asia to the Pacific Islands. In Australia it occurs in the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales. Adult is a fruit-piercer.
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eudocima salaminia
Description
The wingspan is about 80-104 mm. Palpi with second joint very short and non-spatulate. Fore wings with straight outer margin. Cilia non-crenulate. Head and collar plum fruit colored. Thorax greenish with tufts on metathorax. Abdomen orange. Fore wings are golden greenish. A broad cream-colored costal fascia runs from near base of inner margin to apex, striated with pale red and turning to green at costa. There is a creamy marginal band as well. A curved red streak found below vein 2. Hind wings orange with large black lunule beyond lower angle of cell. A black marginal band with cilia whitish spots runs from costa to vein 2. Ventral side of fore wings fuscous, with orange at base. Broad whitish postmedial band not reaching costa or inner margin. Cilia whitish.
Larva dark purplish grey with a few whitish specks. Somites 4th to 6th with small yellowish sub-dorsal spots, beneath which on 5th and 6th somites is a red-ringed black ocellus with whitish pupil. 11th somite is with a conical reddish dorsal tubercle. Late instar is olive brown with dark specks. A pale lateral fascia found on medial somites and purplish fascia from tubercle to last abdominal segment.
The larvae feed on Stephania japonica and Sarcopetalum harveyanum. Adults are a pest on fruit plantations. They penetrate fruit in order to suck the juices. After the fruit has been pierced, it is vulnerable for fungi and other micro-organisms. Piercing occurs on Oranges, Lemons and other Citrus as well as Lychees and Longans.