Trigonodes cephise

Trigonodes cephise is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779.^[1] It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to northern Australia, the Caroline Islands, Samoa and New Caledonia, Nias and other islands on the south-west of Sumatra.

Trigonodes cephise
Gunung Gading NP, Sarawak, MALAYSIA
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae (?)
Genus:	Trigonodes
Species:	T. cephise
Binomial name
Trigonodes cephise (Cramer, [1779])
Synonyms
Noctua cephise (Cramer, [1779]) Trigonodes maxima Guenée, 1852 Chalciope cephise ab. cephisoides Strand, 1917 Chalciope saina Swinhoe, 1918 Trigonodes saina (Swinhoe, 1918) Chalciope cephise cephisiodes Gaede, 1938

The larvae feed on Vigna species, including Vigna marina.

Subspecies

• Trigonodes cephise cephise
• Trigonodes cephise saina (Nias and other islands on the south-west of Sumatra)