Dichromia sagitta

Dichromia sagitta is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in India,[2] Macau,[3] Hong Kong,[4] Japan and Taiwan.

Dichromia sagitta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Erebidae
Subfamily:
Hypeninae
Genus:
Dichromia
Species:
D. sagitta
Binomial name
Dichromia sagitta
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms[1]
  • Noctua sagitta Fabricius, 1775
  • Phalaena (Noctua) orosia Cramer, 1780
  • Phalaena (Noctua) macularis Hübner, 1787

Biology

The larvae had been recorded on Marsdenia species, Marsdenia volublis (Apocynaceae), Tylophora asthamatica, Tylophora ovata[5] and Tylophora indica, an Asclepiadaceae.[6]

gollark: ++magic pyc = bot.get_guild(346530916832903169).get_channel(348698124371361793)return f"#{c.name} \n*{c.topic}*\nPosition: {c.position}\nSlowmode: {c.slowmode_delay}\nLast message: {c.last_message_id}\nOverwrites: {[f'{o.type}({o.id}): {o.allow} ✅ {o.deny} ❎' for o in c._overwrites]}"
gollark: ++magic pyc = _bot.get_guild(346530916832903169).get_channel(348698124371361793)return f"#{c.name} \n*{c.topic}*\nPosition: {c.position}\nSlowmode: {c.slowmode_delay}\nLast message: {c.last_message_id}\nOverwrites: {[f'{o.type}({o.id}): {o.allow} ✅ {o.deny} ❎' for o in c._overwrites]}"
gollark: It said he was staff, lyricly.
gollark: ++magic sql SELECT * FROM marriages
gollark: Okay, I have lost control of the esobot mainframe™.

References
  1. Lödl, Martin (June 30, 1993). "Notes on the synonymy of the genera Hypena Schrank, 1802, Dichromia Guenée, 1854 and Harita Moore, 1882. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hypeninae)". Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen. 45 (1/2): 11–14.
  2. Savela, Markku (July 31, 2019). "Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius, 1775)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  3. Easton, Emmett R. & Pun, Wing-Wah (1993). "New records of moths from Macau, Southeast China". Tropical Lepidoptera. 7 (2): 113-118.
  4. Flickr: images from Eugene Karolinskiy
  5. Insects in Indian Agroecosystems
  6. Gole, N. S. & Das, B. K. (2011). Biology of Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius) (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera), a serious pest of Indian ipecac, Tylophora indica". The Journal of Plant Protection Sciences. 3 (2): 14-19.


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