Bastilla joviana is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Caspar Stoll in 1782.[1] It is found from the Oriental region to the Moluccas and in New Guinea and Australia. It is also present in South Africa.
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Sri Lanka | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Bastilla |
Species: | B. joviana
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Binomial name | |
Bastilla joviana (Stoll, 1782)
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Synonyms | |
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The larvae feed on Acalypha, Breynia and Phyllanthus species.
Subspecies
edit- Bastilla joviana joviana
- Bastilla joviana curvisecta (New Guinea and Australia)
References
edit- ^ 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.
External links
edit- Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Bastilla joviana Stoll". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- Kemal, Muhabbet & Koçak, Ahmet Ömer (2007). Synonymous Checklist of the South African Lepidoptera (PDF). Cesa Publications on African Lepidoptera. Vol. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-19 – via Internet Archive.