Artena dotata is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the Indian subregion to Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Japan, Sumatra and Borneo.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Artena |
| Species: | A. dotata
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| Binomial name | |
| Artena dotata (Fabricius, 1794)
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Description
editIts wingspan is about 72 mm. The body is bronze brown. Forewings with a white speck in the cell. Antemdial and postmedial lines of forewings are very oblique, where antemedials are not waved and postmedials very slightly waved. Reniform broken up into two spots. A prominent marginal greyish band with a waved line found on it. Hindwings with prominent medial incomplete white band. The margin and cilia whitish. Ventral side with pale basal areas in both wings.[1]
Spherical eggs are blue green and vertically ridged. Larvae spidery with the comb-like true legs on a thick thorax. Abdomen long. Primary setae are long. Third-instar larvae light brown with a white line series, which running longitudinally. Pupa typically ophiusine form.[2]
The larvae feed on Combretum, Getonia, Quisqualis and Terminalia species.[2]
References
edit- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ a b "Artena dotata Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
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