Blasticorhinus rivulosa is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Japan,[2] Taiwan,[3] India and Sri Lanka.
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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: | Blasticorhinus |
| Species: | B. rivulosa
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Description
editIts wingspan is about 32 mm. Hindwings of male with normal neuration. A large vesicular fold found on base of inner margin with a tuft of long hair attached to it. The apex of the vesicular fold truncate. Female has reddish grey-brown body. Forewings with antemedial sinuous line. A dark spot on discocellulars and specks found at origin of vein 2. There is an irregularly waved postmedial line. A waved sub-marginal line found with fuscous brown area beyond it. A curved fulvous and ochreous line runs from apex to vein 3. Hindwings with sinuous medial line and lunulate postmedial, sub-marginal lines. Outer area fuscous brown. Both wings with fine marginal ochreous line.[4]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Blasticorhinus rivulosa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
- ^ Japanese Moths
- ^ TaibNet - Catalogue of Life in Taiwan
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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