''Eudocima salaminia'', the green fruit-piercing moth, is a
moth
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of the family
Erebidae
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. The species was
first described by
Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is found from
India
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, and across south-east Asia to the
Pacific Islands
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. In
Australia
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it occurs in the
Northern Territory
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,
Queensland
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and
New South Wales
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. The adult is a fruit piercer.
Description
The
wingspan
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is about 80–104 mm. Palpi with second joint very short and non-spatulate. Forewings with straight outer margin. Cilia non-crenulate. Head and collar plum fruit colored. Thorax greenish with tufts on metathorax. Abdomen orange. Forewings are golden greenish. A broad cream-colored costal fascia runs from near base of inner margin to apex, striated with pale red and turning to green at costa. There is a creamy marginal band as well. A curved red streak found below vein 2. Hindwings orange with large black lunule beyond lower angle of cell. A black marginal band with cilia whitish spots runs from costa to vein 2. Ventral side of forewings fuscous, with orange at base. Broad whitish postmedial band not reaching costa or inner margin. Cilia whitish.
Larva dark purplish grey with a few whitish specks. Somites 4th to 6th with small yellowish sub-dorsal spots, beneath which on 5th and 6th somites is a red-ringed black ocellus with whitish pupil. 11th somite is with a conical reddish dorsal tubercle. Late instar is olive brown with dark specks. A pale lateral fascia found on medial somites and purplish fascia from tubercle to last abdominal segment.
Gallery
File:MaenasSalaminia12-3-l.jpg, Caterpillar
File:Eudocima salaminia female dorsal.jpg, Female, dorsal view
File:Eudocima salaminia female ventral.jpg, Female, ventral view
File:Eudocima salaminia male dorsal.jpg, Male, dorsal view
File:Eudocima salaminia male ventral.jpg, Male, ventral view
References
External links
Effects of temperature on development and seasonality of ''Eudocima salaminia''
Eudocima
Moths of Asia
Moths of Japan
Moths described in 1777
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