Ophiusa disjungens

Ophiusa disjungens
Ophiusa disjungens male
Ophiusa disjungens female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Ophiusa
Species: O. disjungens
Binomial name
Ophiusa disjungens
(Walker, 1858)
Synonyms
  • Othiodes disjungens Walker, 1858
  • Anua tongaensis Hampson, 1913
  • Ophiusa tongaensis (Hampson, 1913)
  • Anua timorensis Strand, 1913
  • Anua timorensis Gaede, 1938
  • Minucia indiscriminata Hampson, 1893
  • Ophiusa disjungens indiscriminata (Hampson, 1893)
  • Ophiusa indiscriminata (Hampson, 1893)
  • Anua indiscriminata (Hampson, 1893)

Ophiusa disjungens, the guava moth,[1] is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in south-east Asia and the south Pacific, including Thailand, Japan, Tonga and New South Wales and Queensland. Adult is a fruit-piercer.[2]

Description

Similar to Ophiusa discriminans, differs in head and thorax being yellowish grey. Abdomen lack black patch. Fore wings yellowish grey without black specks. A maculate line runs beyond the postmedial line. A grey and dark patch beyond the sub-apical spots, and hardly a trace of the patch at anal angle. A dentate sub-marginal line with the area beyond it reddish. Hind wing orange with the black reduced to a submarginal medial patch.[3]

Larva pale brownish, with numerous waved longitudinal black lines, between which are black specks series. There are some red between each pair of legs, and a black patch between each pair of prolegs. Small pared dorsal prominences found on 11th somites. The larvae feed on various Myrtaceae species, including Eucalyptus, Syncarpia glomulifera and Psidium guajava.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Guava Moth". Brisbane Insects and Spiders. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Distribution of Ophiusa disjungens Walker". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Guava Moth - Ophiusa disjungens (Walker, 1858)". Butterfly House. Retrieved 14 August 2016.


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