Brunia antica

Brunia antica
Brunia antica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Arctiidae
Genus:	Brunia
Species:	B. antica
Binomial name
Brunia antica (Walker 1854)
Synonyms
Lithosia antica Walker, 1854 Eilema antica Lithosia brevipennis Walker, 1854 Lithosia natara Moore, 1859 [1860] Lithosia intermixta Walker, 1864 Ilema atrifrons Hampson, 1907 Eilema kosemponensis Strand, 1917 Lithosia horishanella Matsumura, 1927

Brunia antica is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found from the Indian Subregion to China, the Ryukyu Islands, the Chagos Archipelago, the Nicobar Islands and Sundaland.

There is strong sexual dimorphism in the imago, with the males having a more or less uniform straw colour, whereas females have the forewing darker, greyer, with a narrow straw-coloured costal strip.

This species has a wingspan of 26mm.^[1] The biology is unknown, but the larvae probably feed on lichen and/or algae.

References

1. Hampson in Descirptions of new genera and species of Syntomidae, Artiadae, Agaristidae and Noctuidae.

External links

• The moths of the Chagos Archipelago with notes on their biogeography
• The Moths Borneo