Spirama helicina

Spirama helicina
Spirama helicina from Ratchaburi Province, Western Thailand
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Spirama
Species: S. helicina
Binomial name
Spirama helicina
(Hübner, 1831)[1]
Synonyms
  • Speiredonia helicina Hübner, 1831
  • Speiredonia japonica Guenée, 1852[2]
  • Spirama japonica
  • Spirama aegrota Butler, 1881

Spirama helicina is a moth of the Erebidae family.

The wingspan is 60–70 mm. As in many species of genus Spirama, the pattern on the wings when the moth is resting looks like the face of a snake with slightly opened mouth.

Distribution

It is found in Russia (south-eastern Siberia, Ussuri, Primorye), China (Sichuan, Yunnan), Taiwan, Korea, Japan (Honshu, Kyushu), India (Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal), Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, the Philippines (Negros), Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi.[3]

Sexual dimorphism

Spirama helicina female
Spirama helicina male

Speiredonia japonica

Although Speiredonia japonica is an accepted synonym of Spirama helicina,[4] the Speiredonia japonica exemplars in Plate CCXI of the Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum illustrated by Sir George F. Hampson at the turn of the 20th century have a markedly different pattern.

Speiredonia japonica female. Illustrated by George Hampson (1903-1913)
Speiredonia japonica male. Illustrated by George Hampson

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