Hulodes Angulata
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''Hulodes caranea'' is a species of moth of the family
Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...
first described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. It is found from India,
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
,
Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
, Java, Hong Kong to Queensland and New Guinea, it is also found on the
Marianas The Mariana Islands (; also the Marianas; in Chamorro: ''Manislan Mariånas'') are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, betw ...
and Carolines.


Description

The wingspan is about 84–90 mm. Hindwings with crenulate outer margin and produced to a point at vein 4. Male fuscous brown. Wings suffused with purplish as far as the curved submarginal line which runs from the apex to inner margin of hindwings, the area beyond it ochreous brown with a marginal specks series. Forewings with traces of antemedial and postmedial waved lines and brown centered ochreous lunule at end of cell. Hindwings with traces of antemedial waved line. Ventral side with crenulate medial line. Hindwings with black cell spot and spot at middle of costa ventrally. Female pale ochreous brown, with some dark brown suffusion inside the double oblique line. Larva olive greenish in color with fuscous speckles and paler below. It has two pointed dorsal tubercles on anal somite. Dorsal and lateral bands of black streaks and greenish white blotches found on back and sides. Stigmata black and tubercles reddish. The larvae feed on Acanthaceae and Apocynaceae species.


References

{{Taxonbar , from=Q10769532 Moths of Asia Moths of Japan Moths described in 1780 Hulodes