Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Erebidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Nagia | |
Similar Nagia, Anticarsia irrorata, Eudocima materna, Dysgonia, Ophiusa | ||
Nagia linteola is a species of moth in the family Erebidae, this species occurs in South Africa, Congo, Yemen, the Comoros, Mauritius, Madagascar, Indonesia (Borneo), India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and in Australia, where it has been recorded from Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and Victoria.
Description
The wingspan is about 56–66 mm. Antennae of male almost simple. Fore legs in male with thick tufts of scales from coxa and very long hairs from femur and tibia. Head and thorax black and dark red-brown with a purplish gloss. Abdomen blackish. Fore wings red-brown with more or less black. A short sub-basal line can be seen. Waved antemedial, medial, and post-medial line present, where the postmedial highly angled outwards beyond end of cell. A small black spot or ring-spot in cell and indistinct reniform spot with ring-spot below it. Traces of an irregularly waved sub-marginal line present and apex irrorated with white. Hind wings black with a pure white medial band not reaching inner margin. Apex white and some white sub-marginal spots more or less developed towards anal angle.
Larva has greyish brownish green head, lined thinly with brown. Body color is similar to head, but with chocolate colors. Tubercles light reddish brown. Ventrally whitish, with black patches in between prolegs and true legs. Pupation takes place in a cocoon spun on a tree trunk.
The larvae feed on Terminalia elliptica, Corymbia tesselaris and Lagerstroemia speciosa species.