Kingdom Animalia Family Noctuidae Scientific name Sympis rufibasis Rank Species | Class Insecta Genus Sympis Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | |
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Similar Butterflies and moths, Chalciope mygdon, Platyja umminia, Hypopyra, Ischyja | ||
Sympis rufibasis is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Borneo east to New Guinea, the Solomons and Queensland.
Description
Wingspan is about 48m. The wingspan is about 50 mm. Male has orange-red head and thorax. Abdomen reddish brown. Fore wings with orange-red basal area, bounded by an oblique blue line. The outer area reddish brown with a large scarlet lunule beyond the cell and a white speck on the costa above it. An indistinct, irregularly dentate, sub-marginal line and a marginal specks series present. Hind wings fuscous with incomplete medial white band and waved marginal line. Ventral side almost entirely grey suffused. A crenulate postmedial line present. Female lack scarlet lunule on fore wings.
Larva darkish, olive green-brown colored with a distinct pale yellow stripe runs along each side that extends from the head to the anal prolegs. The larvae feed on Dimocarpus, Litchi and Nephelium species.