Lepidoptera > Noctuoidea > Erebidae > Arctiinae > Amerilini > Amerila
Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773)
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- Early stages
- Distribution
- Identification
- Status, Habitat and Habits
- Larval Host Plants
- Similiar species
- References
Early Stages:
Indian and global distribution:
records (based on images):
Larval Host Plants:
Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773): Smilax spp. (Smilacaceae), Marsdenia spp., Beaumontia spp. (Apocynaceae), Ixora spp. (Rubiaceae), Dioscorea spp. (Dioscoreaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010)
Identification:
Sexual, seasonal & individual variation:
Status, Habitat and Habits:
Adult moth observations that have been databased:
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Similiar species:
Differs from Amerila omissa in having the abdomen completely red. The brown band at the end of the forewing cell is absent in Amerila eugenia and Amerila rhodopa.
List of Amerila Walker, 1855 known from India.
Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773), India (West Bengal, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Throughout India, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Kerala).
Amerila eugenia (Fabricius, 1794), India (Central and South India, Punjab, Andhra
Pradesh).
Amerila omissa (Rothschild, 1910), India (NW Himalayas, Assam, Meghalaya, NE Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh).
Amerila rhodopa Walker, 1864, India (Sikkim, Nagaland, Southern India, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka).
List of Amerila Walker, 1855 known from India.
Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773), India (West Bengal, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Throughout India, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Kerala).
Amerila eugenia (Fabricius, 1794), India (Central and South India, Punjab, Andhra
Pradesh).
Amerila omissa (Rothschild, 1910), India (NW Himalayas, Assam, Meghalaya, NE Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh).
Amerila rhodopa Walker, 1864, India (Sikkim, Nagaland, Southern India, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka).
References:
- Rhodogastria astreas ; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3: 504. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid03brituoft/page/504/mode/1up?view=theater
- : pl. 33, fig. 329
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A., Sanyal, A.K.2019. Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term monitoring plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 1-457 pp. Pl. 111.6.
- http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/arct/astreus.html
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Cite this page along with its URL as:
Anonymous. 2022. Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773). In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Moths of India, v. 3.30. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. http://www.mothsofindia.org/sp/354954/Amerila-astreus