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Anuga spp
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SS: Anuga multiplicans (Walker, 1858)
Piada multiplicans Walker, 1858; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 15: 1747; TL: Canara. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1315brit/page/1747/mode/1up?view=theater
FBI, Moths 2: pg. 390, #2256. Form multiplicans with larger ochreous anal patch FW.
MON Part 2, Pl. 42/5 for Anuga multiplicans
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201657-Anuga-multiplicans
Anuga constricta in both publications below are also Anuga multiplicans (Walker, 1858) and are erroneously identified as Anuga constricta.
Sondhi et al 2018. Moths of Shendurney, Image 149.
Sondhi, 2024. Moths of India A Field Guide, pg. 206, Pl. 100/1.
Similar species
Anuga supraconstricta Yoshimoto, 1993
Anuga supraconstricta Yoshimoto, 1993; Tinea 13 (Suppl. 3): 43, pl. 42, f. 6; TL: Godavari
Similar to A. constricta Guenee in appearance, but larger. Forewing pale to dark gray, not tinged with brown; reniform thickly defined by black. A tornal creamy marking of hindwing conspicuous, its outer margin oblique and not reaching to vein 3.
UK: Agree with the ID
Piada multiplicans Walker, 1858; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 15: 1747; TL: Canara. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1315brit/page/1747/mode/1up?view=theater
FBI, Moths 2: pg. 390, #2256. Form multiplicans with larger ochreous anal patch FW.
MON Part 2, Pl. 42/5 for Anuga multiplicans
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201657-Anuga-multiplicans
Anuga constricta in both publications below are also Anuga multiplicans (Walker, 1858) and are erroneously identified as Anuga constricta.
Sondhi et al 2018. Moths of Shendurney, Image 149.
Sondhi, 2024. Moths of India A Field Guide, pg. 206, Pl. 100/1.
Similar species
Anuga supraconstricta Yoshimoto, 1993
Anuga supraconstricta Yoshimoto, 1993; Tinea 13 (Suppl. 3): 43, pl. 42, f. 6; TL: Godavari
Similar to A. constricta Guenee in appearance, but larger. Forewing pale to dark gray, not tinged with brown; reniform thickly defined by black. A tornal creamy marking of hindwing conspicuous, its outer margin oblique and not reaching to vein 3.
UK: Agree with the ID
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2022
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