Plusiodonta coelonota

Plusiodonta coelonota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Calpinae
Genus: Plusiodonta
Species: P. coelonota
Binomial name
Plusiodonta coelonota
(Kollar, 1844)
Synonyms
  • Plusia coelonota Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844
  • Plusia agens Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874
  • Plusiodonta chalsytoides Guenée, 1852
  • Deva conducens Walker, 1857

Plusiodonta coelonota is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Australia, Papua New Guinea, to South and South-East Asia.

The wingspan is about 25 mm. Adults are brown with a darker diagonal mark across each forewing.

The larvae feed on Southern Japonica (Stephania japonica) in the Menispermaceae family.[1]

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