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Observation_300926
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Ctenoplusia mutans (Walker, 1865)
1) OD : Plusia mutans, – List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, London 33: Pg 839 -https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/839/mode/1up?view=theater
2) https://catalog.digitalarchives.tw/item/00/43/0c/27.html
3) http://npc.iari.res.in/plusiinae/index.php/species-page/2-uncategorised/21-ctenoplusia-mutans-walker-1865
4) DNA barcoding and Taxonomic account on some selected species of subfamily Plusiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from India, Sinha et al , Zootaxa 4845 (4) DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4845.4.1 Fig 22
5) https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/861724-Ctenoplusia-mutans
Similar spp. with pinkish suffusion is C. tarassota, but the fasciae & gamma marks are different
SS: Less confident of this ID, compared with the other image. The pink suffusion is less, and there is dark suffused band beyond the pink suffusion, present in most images, Also the black sub apical mark is not present in other images of the species. Probably best left at genus level.
Additional references
Moths of Laos, Vol. 25, pg. 173, Pl. 87: 15
Dactyloplusia mutans; MOT, Vol 3, Pl. 37/44.
Ctenoplusia tarassota is a similar species.
Moths of Laos, Vol. 25, pg. 173, Pl. 87: 16 for tarassota.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/855984-Ctenoplusia-tarassota
1) OD : Plusia mutans, – List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, London 33: Pg 839 -https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3334brit/page/839/mode/1up?view=theater
2) https://catalog.digitalarchives.tw/item/00/43/0c/27.html
3) http://npc.iari.res.in/plusiinae/index.php/species-page/2-uncategorised/21-ctenoplusia-mutans-walker-1865
4) DNA barcoding and Taxonomic account on some selected species of subfamily Plusiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from India, Sinha et al , Zootaxa 4845 (4) DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4845.4.1 Fig 22
5) https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/861724-Ctenoplusia-mutans
Similar spp. with pinkish suffusion is C. tarassota, but the fasciae & gamma marks are different
SS: Less confident of this ID, compared with the other image. The pink suffusion is less, and there is dark suffused band beyond the pink suffusion, present in most images, Also the black sub apical mark is not present in other images of the species. Probably best left at genus level.
Additional references
Moths of Laos, Vol. 25, pg. 173, Pl. 87: 15
Dactyloplusia mutans; MOT, Vol 3, Pl. 37/44.
Ctenoplusia tarassota is a similar species.
Moths of Laos, Vol. 25, pg. 173, Pl. 87: 16 for tarassota.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/855984-Ctenoplusia-tarassota