Oreta singapura is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892.[1] It is found in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram) and New Guinea.[2]
Oreta singapura | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Drepanidae |
Genus: | Oreta |
Species: | O. singapura
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Binomial name | |
Oreta singapura C. Swinhoe, 1892
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Synonyms | |
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Adults are fawn coloured, the wings with a few brown irrorations (sprinkles) and some pure white scales at the end of the cell of the forewings. There is a brown straight line across both wings, from the apex of the forewings to the abdominal margin of the hindwings one-third from the base, indistinctly marked with white on the forewings on the outer side and with a blackish spot with some white scales in it on the hindmargin of the forewings near the angle, the space outside the transverse line rather darker than the rest of the wings and on the hindwings there is a whitish space on the basal of the costa.[3]
Subspecies
edit- Oreta singapura singapura (Singapore, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo)
- Oreta singapura continua (Warren, 1899) (Seram, New Guinea)
- Oreta singapura kalisi Watson, 1961 (Sulawesi)
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Oreta singapura". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Oreta singapura Swinhoe, 1892". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- ^ Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum (1): 243 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.