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Aroa plana (Walker, 1855)
Orgyia ? plana Walker, 1855 -List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Vol 4 pg 786. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso46brit/page/786/mode/1up
Charnidas junctifera Walker, 1865; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 32: 334; TL: Ceylon. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3132brit/page/334/mode/1up
Charnidas ochracea Moore, 1879; Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (1): Pg 44. https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/44/mode/1up
Aroa plana- Swinhoe, 1923, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (63): 291 #675.
Aroa ochracea; Swinhoe, 1923, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (61): 95
Aroa plana https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1090472-Aroa-plana
SS: 4 very similar species. Descriptions are very scanty. And online illustrations not great either. Needs further investigation. Lots of similar images published under the Aroa spp. page. We need to look at those as well.
Aroa major Hampson, [1893].
Aroa plana (Walker, 1855)
Aroa maxima Hampson, [1893]
Aroa sienna Hampson, 1891.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/748606-Aroa-sienna
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1090472-Aroa-plana
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1358790-Aroa-major
Orgyia ? plana Walker, 1855 -List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Vol 4 pg 786. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso46brit/page/786/mode/1up
Charnidas junctifera Walker, 1865; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 32: 334; TL: Ceylon. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3132brit/page/334/mode/1up
Charnidas ochracea Moore, 1879; Descr. Indian lep. Atkinson (1): Pg 44. https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/44/mode/1up
Aroa plana- Swinhoe, 1923, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (63): 291 #675.
Aroa ochracea; Swinhoe, 1923, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 11 (61): 95
Aroa plana https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1090472-Aroa-plana
SS: 4 very similar species. Descriptions are very scanty. And online illustrations not great either. Needs further investigation. Lots of similar images published under the Aroa spp. page. We need to look at those as well.
Aroa major Hampson, [1893].
Aroa plana (Walker, 1855)
Aroa maxima Hampson, [1893]
Aroa sienna Hampson, 1891.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/748606-Aroa-sienna
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1090472-Aroa-plana
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1358790-Aroa-major