Ophiusa trapezium

Ophiusa trapezium is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka to Queensland, the Bismarck Islands and New Caledonia. Adults are fruit piercers.^[1]

Ophiusa trapezium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Ophiusa
Species:	O. trapezium
Binomial name
Ophiusa trapezium (Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
Ophiodes trapezium Guenée, 1852 Ophisma circumferens Walker, 1865 Ophiusa circumferens (Walker, 1865) Ophisma cognata Walker, 1865 Ophiusa cognata (Walker, 1865) Ophiodes adusta Moore, 1882 Ophiusa adusta (Moore, 1882) Minucia prunicolor Moore, 1885 Ophiusa prunicolor (Moore, 1885) Ophiusa kebea Bethune-Baker, 1906 Anua trapezium Guenée; Holloway, 1976 Ophiusa circumferens (Walker, 1865)

Description

It has a wingspan of 66 mm. The head and thorax are bright rufous. Shaft of antennae whitish. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Forewings bright rufous suffused with purplish as far as the postmedial line and beyond the submarginal line. There is an outwardly oblique antemedial line jointed at inner margin by the obliquely waved postmedial line. The reniform with rufous outline. A double sub-marginal straight line and marginal dentate line. Hindwings brownish ochreous. The inner area clothed with fuscous hair. A broad diffused sub-marginal fuscous band present. Ventral side brownish ochreous. Forewings with fuscous cell and a submarginal patch.^[2]

Larvae have been reared on Melaleuca species (Myrtaceae) and Melastoma malabathricum (Melastomataceae).^[3]

Gallery

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  Female, dorsal view
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  Female, ventral view
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  Male, dorsal view
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  Male, ventral view