Risoba repugnans

Risoba repugnans
Risoba repugnans ssp. albistriata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Nolidae
Genus:	Risoba
Species:	R. repugnans
Binomial name
Risoba repugnans (Walker, 1865)
Synonyms
Thyatira repugnans Risoba literata Moore, 1881 Heliothis albistriata Pagenstecher, 1888

Risoba repugnans is a species of moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1865.

Distribution

It is found from India and Sri Lanka to the Solomon Islands.[1]

Description

It has a wingspan of 40 mm. Head brown. Thorax and abdomen brownish white. Forewings brownish grey with a basal white patch slightly suffused with bright rufous. There are indistinct waved antemedial, postmedial, and sub-marginal lines. The orbicular is a speck, whereas reniform white with rufous center and edge. A large apical rufous patch with whitish lunule found on its inner side. Some rufous patches with white edges found on outer part of inner margin. A marginal series of dark specks present. Hindwings white with the fuscous outer are and ventrally with cell spot.[2]

Subspecies

• Risoba repugnans repugnans (Walker, 1865)
• Risoba repugnans albistriata (Pagenstecher, 1888) (Bismarck Archipelago)[3]

Biology

The larvae had been recorded on Melastoma sp.[4]

References

1. Naturkundliches Informationssystem
2. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
3. Biodiversitylibrary.org: Pagenstecher, 1899. Die Lepidopterenfauna des Bismarck-Archipels. Zoologica Hft. 27-29.1-267. 2 pl.
4. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Risoba repugnans Walker". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 8 August 2016.