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'''''Pangora erosa''''' is a [[moth]] of the [[Arctiidae]] family. It was described by Walker in 1855. It is found in [[India]] (Travancore, Nilgiris) and [[Sri Lanka]].<ref>[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/aethalida/index.html#erosa Aethalida at funet]</ref> |
'''''Pangora erosa''''' is a [[moth]] of the [[Arctiidae]] family. It was described by Walker in 1855. It is found in [[India]] (Travancore, Nilgiris) and [[Sri Lanka]].<ref>[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/aethalida/index.html#erosa Aethalida at funet]</ref> |
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==Description== |
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In male, palpi crimson with black third joint. Head whitish with a black spot on vertex. Collar and tegulae white with pairs of black spots. Thorax brown with white stripes near the tegulae. Abdomen crimson dorsally with a series of brown spots. Legs striped with crimson color. Fore wings are brown with a highly irregular white fascia from the base, joining a nearly straight medial band sometimes interrupted above median nervure, and with a brown sub-basal spot on it below median nervure. There are two sub-apical spots and one sub-marginal spot above vein 3. Hind wings are crimson with three large irregular sub-marginal brown blotches and some small spots on the margin below apex. |
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In female, sub-marginal spots on fore wings are small. Hind wings have medial brown spots at vein 2 origin and on vein 1. Sub-marginal spots are conjoined into a broad brand. Larva dark brown clothed with dense tuft of blackish hair.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/207319 | title=The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii | publisher=Digital Library of India | date=1892 | accessdate=4 July 2016 | author=Hampson G. F. | pages=558}}</ref> |
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==Ecology== |
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The larvae feed on ''[[Gloriosa superba]]'' and ''[[Thunbergia]]'' species. |
The larvae feed on ''[[Gloriosa superba]]'' and ''[[Thunbergia]]'' species. |
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Pangora erosa is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by Walker in 1855. It is found in India (Travancore, Nilgiris) and Sri Lanka.[1]
Description
In male, palpi crimson with black third joint. Head whitish with a black spot on vertex. Collar and tegulae white with pairs of black spots. Thorax brown with white stripes near the tegulae. Abdomen crimson dorsally with a series of brown spots. Legs striped with crimson color. Fore wings are brown with a highly irregular white fascia from the base, joining a nearly straight medial band sometimes interrupted above median nervure, and with a brown sub-basal spot on it below median nervure. There are two sub-apical spots and one sub-marginal spot above vein 3. Hind wings are crimson with three large irregular sub-marginal brown blotches and some small spots on the margin below apex.
In female, sub-marginal spots on fore wings are small. Hind wings have medial brown spots at vein 2 origin and on vein 1. Sub-marginal spots are conjoined into a broad brand. Larva dark brown clothed with dense tuft of blackish hair.[2]
Ecology
The larvae feed on Gloriosa superba and Thunbergia species.
References
- ^ Aethalida at funet
- ^ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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