''Callidrepana patrana'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

Drepanidae The Drepanidae are a family of moths with about 660 species described worldwide. They are generally divided in three subfamilies, which share the same type of hearing organ. Thyatirinae, previously often placed in their own family, bear a supe ...

. It was described by

Frederic Moore Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Mo ...

in 1866. It is found in

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, mainland

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and

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Description

The

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is 29–36 mm. Adults have been recorded in April and June. Head fulvous. Thorax and abdomen pale fawn in colour. Wings are pale or dark dawn-colour. Forewings with traces of an ante-medial waved line. Often wanting dark patch on the discocellulars. A double brown line runs from the apex to inner margin beyond the middle. A series of sub-marginal dark specks found on the veins. The area in the cell and below the costa, the veins, the outer edge of the oblique line and the outer margin spangled with brilliant bluish-silver scales. Hindwings have a double straight medial line not reaching the costa. A post-medial series of specks present. Outer edge of the line and outer margin is with silvery scales. The Sri Lankan form is much darker with discocellular patch of the forewing is broken up into three small spots and with more silvery irroration (sprinkles). The larvae feed on the leaves of '' Rhus succedanea'' and '' Rhus ambigus''.

Subspecies

*''Callidrepana patrana patrana'' (north-eastern India, Sri Lanka, northern Myanmar, Taiwan, Laos, China: Szechwan, Yunnan, Fukien, Chekiang) *''Callidrepana patrana palleolus'' (Motschulsky, 1866) (Japan)

References

Moths described in 1866 Drepaninae Moths of Japan {{Drepaninae-stub