Eudocima aurantia
| Fruit-sucking moth | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Eudocima |
| Species: | E. aurantia |
| Binomial name | |
| Eudocima aurantia (Moore, 1877) | |
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Eudocima aurantia, known as Fruit-sucking moth,[1] is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found across south-east Asia, from Sri-Lanka to northern Queensland, Australia. It is also present on the Andamans.
Female ventral view
Male ventral view
The wingspan is about 90 mm.
The larvae feed on Cocculus species. The adults are a pest on various fruits. They pierce the fruit in order to suck the juice.
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