''Serrodes campana'' is a species of

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of the family

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first described by

Achille Guenée Achille Guenée (sometimes M.A. Guenée; 1 January 1809 – 30 December 1880) was a French lawyer and entomologist. Biography Achille Guenée was born in Chartres and died in Châteaudun. He was educated in Chartres, where he showed a very ear ...

in 1852. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to eastern

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and

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. It is also present in

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and

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. The adult is a fruit piercer, but also feeds on flower nectar.

Description

The

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is about 80 mm. Head, thorax and basal and outer area of forewings brown and markings larger than other species. Forewings with a sub-basal dark red-brown spot on the costa, with a line from its lower edge. A similar antemedial spot and large lunule found below the cell with a highly excurved line from its lower edge. Reniform broken up into a number of tessellated spots with pale edges, and with rufous marks on the costa above it. A double straight postmedial line angled below the costa. Abdomen and hindwings are fuscous. Hindwings have traces of a medial pale line. Cilia paler at apex and anal angle. Larva ochreous blue grey with bluish-black speckles. The first abdominal segment black and swollen. All the legs are ochreous. The larvae feed on ''

Lepisanthes ''Lepisanthes'' is a genus of 31 species of trees or shrubs native to tropical Africa, south and southeast Asia, Australia, and Madagascar. It includes species formerly classified in the genera ''Aphania'', ''Erioglossum'', and ''Otophora''. , ...

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Nephelium ''Nephelium'' is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae, native to southeastern Asia. They are evergreen trees with pinnately compound leaf, leaves, and edible drupe, drupaceous fruit; one species, ''N. lappace ...

'', ''

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Schleichera ''Schleichera'' is a monotypic taxon, monotypic genus of plants in the Sapindus, soapberry family, Sapindaceae. There is only one species, ''Schleichera oleosa'', a tree that occurs in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Species ''Schl ...

'' and '' Acer'' species.

Subspecies

*''Serrodes campana campana'' *''Serrodes campana callipepla'' Prout, 1929

Gallery

File:Serrodes campana female dorsal.jpg, Female, dorsal view File:Serrodes campana female ventral.jpg, Female, ventral view File:Serrodes campana male dorsal.jpg, Male, dorsal view File:Serrodes campana male ventral.jpg, Male, ventral view File:Serrodes campana (Noctuidae Catocalinae) 2.jpg File:Serrodes campana (Noctuidae Catocalinae) 3.jpg

References

Serrodes Moths of Asia Fauna of the Gambia Moths of Africa Moths described in 1852 {{Cocytiini-stub