Lepidoptera > Bombycoidea > Endromidae > Mustilia
Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865
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Mustilia falcipennis
Early Stages:
Indian and global distribution:
records (based on images):
Larval Host Plants:
Identification:
Sexual, seasonal & individual variation:
Status, Habitat and Habits:
Adult moth observations that have been databased:
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arunachal Pradesh | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | ||||||||||||
| All states |
Similiar species:
Separating Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865 and Mustilia phaeopera Hampson, 1910
Mustilia Walker, 1865 species known from India and Nepal
Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865. Himalayas.
Mustilia phaeopera Hampson, 1910. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills); Nepal.
Mustilia castanea Moore, 1879. India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Separating Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865 and Mustilia phaeopera Hampson, 1910
Mustilia falcipennis has FW costal area yellow. Mustillia phaeopera has HW costal area same colour as rest of wing. Also, the HW is more angled.
Separating Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865 and Mustilia castanea Moore, 1879 (Wang et al. 2015).
Separating Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865 and Mustilia castanea Moore, 1879 (Wang et al. 2015).
Forewing apex shortly falcate; fore-and hindwing tornus rounded. Wings darker; HW with a spot near tornus: M. castanea.
Forewing apex strongly falcate,especially in males;fore-and hindwing tornus angled: all the others including falcipennis.
References:
- OD: Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 32: 581. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3132brit/page/581/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig.# 44, pg. 39.
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 20/16
- Zolotuhin, V.V. 2007. A revision of the genus Mustilia Walker, 1865, with descriptions of new taxa (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae). Neue Entomologischen Nachrichten, 60: 187-205.
- Wang, X., Wang, M., Zolotuhin, V.V., Hirowatari, T., Wu, S. and Huang, G.H., 2015. The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands. Zootaxa, 3989(1), pp.1-138. Pg. 99, Fig. 8-A,B,C.
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=297997
Note: Hindwing costa colour not visible; hence provisionally identified.
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Cite this page along with its URL as:
Anonymous. 2022. Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865. 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/358893/Mustilia-falcipennis
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