Avatha discolor

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]

Avatha discolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Avatha
Species:	A. discolor
Binomial name
Avatha discolor (Fabricius, 1794)[1]
Synonyms
Noctua discolor Fabricius, 1794 Avatha includens Walker, 1857 Hypaetra trigonifera Walker, 1858 Hypaetra curvifera Walker, 1858 Hypaetra complacens Walker, 1858 Ophiusa frontalis Walker, 1858 Achaea expectans Walker, 1858 Avatha complacens (Walker, 1858) Avatha curvifera (Walker, 1858) Avatha frontalis (Walker, 1858) Avatha trigonifera (Walker, 1858) Avatha caunindana (Strand, 1920) Hypaetra delunaris Strand, 1917 Hypaetra devittalis Strand, 1917 Hypaetra discoloralis Strand, 1917 Hypaetra subdiscoloralis Strand, 1917 Hypaetra thursdayensis Strand, 1917

Description

from Sri Lanka

Its 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]