Avatha discolor [2] is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the Indo-Australian and Pacific tropics to as far east as Henderson Island.[3]
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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: | Avatha |
| Species: | A. discolor
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Description
editIts wingspan is about 40–46 mm. Males with minutely ciliated antennae and subcostal neuration of forewings not distorted and without sexual patches on forewings and hindwings. Forewings are greyish and fuscous suffused. No spots on costa. The lunule on the antemedial line sometimes obsolescent. A dark spot found in the cell. The postmedial line "S-shaped" beyond the cell with a blackish patch in its upper curve. Hindwings with whitish cilia at apex and near anal angle.[4]
Recorded food plants are Nephelium, Sapindus, and Callicarpa.[5]
References
edit- ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Avatha discolor (Fabricius 1794)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ^ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9
- ^ Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (17 August 2013). "Avatha discolor (Fabricius, 1794)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Avatha discolor Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
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- Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (17 August 2013). "Avatha discolor (Fabricius, 1794)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 13 January 2019.