Lacera procellosa

Lacera procellosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Lacera
Species: L. procellosa
Binomial name
Lacera procellosa
Butler, 1879[1]

Lacera procellosa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from Japan and the Oriental tropics (China (Tibet, Qinghai), Korea, India (Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim), Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan)[2] to the Philippines (Luzon), Sumatra, Sulawesi, Sumbawa, Java, Lombok and Papua New Guinea.

The wingspan is 26-28 mm.[3]

The larvae feed on Gleditsia and possibly Caesalpinia species. They are leaf-green, with a pair of dull yellow tubercles and numerous scattered white dots.[4]

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