Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Ophiusa trapezium | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Ophiusa Rank Species | |
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Similar Ophiusa, Ophiusa triphaenoides, Ophiusa olista, Ophiusa disjungens, Butterflies and moths | ||
Ophiusa trapezium is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka to Queensland, the Bismarck Islands and New Caledonia. Adults are fruit piercers.
Description
Wingspan 66mm,. Head and thorax bright rufous. Shaft of antennae whitish. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Fore wings bright rufous suffused with purplish as far as the postmedial line and beyond the submarginal line. There is an outwardly oblique antemedial line jointed at inner margin by the obliquely waved postmedial line. The reniform with rufous outline. A double sub-marginal straight line and marginal dentate line. Hind wings brownish ochreous. The inner area clothed with fuscous hair. A broad diffused sub-marginal fuscous band present. Ventral side brownish ochreous. Fore wings with fuscous cell and a submarginal patch.
Larvae have been reared on Melaleuca species (Myrtaceae) and Melastoma malabathricum (Melastomataceae).