Hypena iconicalis
| Hypena iconicalis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Hypena |
| Species: | H. iconicalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypena iconicalis Walker, 1859 | |
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Hypena iconicalis is a moth in the Noctuidae family. It is found in India, Sri Lanka,[1] Taiwan, Papua New Guinea,[2] Fiji[3]
Description
Wingspan is about 30-32mm. Fore wings much broader. The outer margin less oblique. Raised tufts are slight. Body reddish grey brown in color. Fore wings with slightly irrorated with dark specks. There is an indistinct sinuous antemedial line present. A black speck in cell. A medial, straight, almost erect dark line found with some bluish grey on the outer edge, and often with the area beyond it grey. A more or less developed sinuous submarginal series of black and white specks. Hind wings fuscous. Ventral side with subapical black and white specks to fore wing, and indistinct cell spot and postmedial line to hind wing. The males have short palpi and more broadly scaled. Frontal tufts very thick. Some specimens have whitish costa on fore wings.[4]
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Moghania macrophylla.[5]
References
- ↑ "Koçak,A.Ö. & M. Kemal,2012, Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". academia. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ↑ Hypena iconicalis - BOLD Systems - Taxonomy Browser
- ↑ Moths in Fiji
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ General and applied entomology
