Neospastis ichnaea

Neospastis ichnaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Genus: Neospastis
Species: N. ichnaea
Binomial name
Neospastis ichnaea
(Meyrick, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma ichnaea Meyrick, 1914

Neospastis ichnaea is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in India.[1]

The wingspan is 22-25 mm. The forewings are whitish-fuscous, on the dorsal two-thirds more or less suffused with light fuscous and sprinkled irregularly with dark fuscous. There is a more or less developed fine dark fuscous streak along the fold towards the base and oblique dark fuscous spots on the costa at one-fourth, the middle, and three-fourths. The stigmata are small and dark fuscous, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is also a series of dark fuscous dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are pale fuscous.

The larvae feed on Symplocos spicata. Feeding between spun leaves, or a broken portion spun on the surface of a whole leaf. The larvae are green, with a brown head, black collar and with a lateral (spiracular) series of black spots, also with black supraspiracular spots on 3, 4, and several of the posterior segments.[2]

References

  1. Neospastis. funet.fi. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
  2. J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 23 (1): 118


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