Ercheia cyllaria

Ercheia cyllaria is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779. It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,[2] Japan, Indochina, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Seram and the Kai Islands.

Ercheia cyllaria
Male
Female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Ercheia
Species:
E. cyllaria
Binomial name
Ercheia cyllaria
(Cramer, 1779)[1]
Synonyms
  • Noctua cyllaria Cramer, 1782
  • Achaea cyllota Guenée, 1852
  • Achaea fusifera Walker, 1858
  • Achaea signivitta Walker, 1858
  • Achaea polychroma Walker, 1858
  • Achaea atrivitta Walker, 1864
  • Achaea purpureilinea Walker, 1864
  • Achaea semipallida Walker, 1864
  • Ercheia tenebrosa Moore, 1867
  • Melipotis gundiana Felder, 1874
  • Melipotis costipannosa Moore, 1882
  • Ercheia pannosa Moore, 1883
  • Ercheia uniformis Moore, 1883
  • Ercheia anvira Swinhoe, 1918
  • Ercheia cyllota (Guenée, 1852)
  • Ercheia costipannosa (Moore, 1882)
  • Ercheia gundiani (Felder, 1874)
  • Ercheia semipallida (Walker, 1864)
  • Ercheia atrivitta (Walker, 1864)
  • Ercheia polychroma (Walker, 1858)
  • Ercheia signivitta (Walker, 1858)
  • Ercheia fusifera (Walker, 1858)
  • Ercheia charon Butler, 1880
  • Ercheia collustrans Lucas, 1894

Description

Its head, thorax and forewings are pale reddish brown. The collar and patagia are often streaked with black. Forewings with indistinct, waved antemedial line and a very much excurved postmedial line beyond the cell. A waved sub-marginal line is present. Orbicular is a speck and reniform is indistinctly dark outlined. Abdomen and hindwings fuscous black. Hindwings with three medial white spots, which may be disconnected and the costal spot obsolescent or conjoined into a band. A spot near center of outer margin. Cilia white at apex and outer angle. Ventral side ochreous white, irrorated (sprinkled) with black. Forewings with oblique crenulate postmedial line and broad sub-marginal diffused band. Hindwings similar, but with a lunule at end of cell and the line more irregular. Colours and spots can vary in subspecies.[3]

The larvae feed on Asparagus, Brassica, Dalbergia and Grewia species.[4]

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Ercheia cyllaria (Cramer 1779)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 15, 2019. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  2. Ercheia cyllaria 曲耳裳蛾. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |website= ignored (help)
  3. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. Ercheia cyllaria Cramer. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |website= ignored (help)
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