Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Harita | |
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Harita rectilinea is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in India (Khasia Hills), Sri Lanka, Burma, Peninsular Malaysia and on Sumatra and Borneo.
Description
Wingspan is about 32mm. Palpi with the third joint longer than the second joint, obliquely porrect and thickly clothed with scaled. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. Body red greyish brown. Palpi black. Fore wings slightly irrorated with dark specks. There is an indistinct sinuous antemedial line and a black speck in cell. A medial straight, almost erect, dark line with some bluish grey on the outer edge, and often with the area beyond it grey. Costa of fore wings have white specks on towards apex. A more or less developed sinuous submarginal black and white specks series present. Hind wings fuscous. Ventral side with sub-apical black and white speck to fore wing, and indistinct cell spot and postmedial line to hind wing. The males have the palpi shorter, more broadly scaled, and the frontal tuft very thick.
The larvae feed on Combretum species.