Bocula pallens
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| Bocula pallens | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Calpinae |
| Genus: | Bocula |
| Species: | B. pallens |
| Binomial name | |
| Bocula pallens (Moore , 1882) | |
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Bocula pallens is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in northern India,[1] and Sri Lanka.
Description
Wingspan about 22mm. Male with fasciculate antennae. Anal tuft very large. Underside of fore wings with a patch of differently formed scales on median nervure. Hind wings shortened, with a large patch of flocculent scaled below costa, the costal neuration being distorted downwards. Male with a patch of curved woolly hair on apical part of margin of hind wing. Male ochreous brown. Fore wings with traces of antemedial, medial, and postmedial speckled lines. A purplish rufous marginal band narrowing to apex and outer angle and with a slight indentation near apex. A marginal series of pale specks present. Hind wings whitish. Female has inner edge of the marginal band of hind wings more curved inwards at center. [2]
References
- ↑ Hewitson & Moore, 1882. New Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the Collection of the late Mr.W.S.Atkinson. pl.5, fig.9
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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