Ophiusa trapezium

Ophiusa trapezium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Ophiusa
Species: O. trapezium
Binomial name
Ophiusa trapezium
(Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Ophiodes trapezium Guenée, 1852
  • Ophisma circumferens Walker, 1865
  • Ophiusa circumferens (Walker, 1865)
  • Ophisma cognata Walker, 1865
  • Ophiusa cognata (Walker, 1865)
  • Ophiodes adusta Moore, 1882
  • Ophiusa adusta (Moore, 1882)
  • Minucia prunicolor Moore, 1885
  • Ophiusa prunicolor (Moore, 1885)
  • Ophiusa kebea Bethune-Baker, 1906
  • Anua trapezium Guenée; Holloway, 1976
  • Ophiusa circumferens (Walker, 1865)

Ophiusa trapezium is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to Queensland, the Bismarck Islands and New Caledonia.

Larvae have been reared on Melaleuca species (Myrtaceae) and Melastoma malabathricum (Melastomataceae).[1]

Adults are fruit piercers.

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References

  1. ↑ Leong, T. M., 2009. Late instar larva and metamorphosis of Ophiusa trapezium (Guenée) in Singapore (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Catocalinae). Nature in Singapore, 2: 203–207
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