Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Noctuoidea Genus Speiredonia Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Family Erebidae Scientific name Speiredonia mutabilis Rank Species | |
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Similar Speiredonia, Butterflies and moths, Ericeia inangulata, Grammodes geometrica, Mocis frugalis | ||
Speiredonia mutabilis is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, from Sundaland eastwards to Australia, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga.
Description
Wingspan is about 70-78mm. Adult blackish brown with purplish tinged. Fore wings with waved sub-basal, antemedial, and medial black lines. There is a spot in cell and a double post-medial waved line excurved from vein 2 to lower angle o cell. An indistinct sinuous sub-marginal double line also present. Hind wings with medial lunulate line and traces of a sinuous double sub-marginal line.
The larvae feed on Acacia species.
References
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