Taxonomy | Euteliidae

Anuga

previously the Anuga species recorded in Hong Kong was thought to be Anuga multiplicans

Here's the text from my forthcoming book.....

Anuga indigofera Holloway, 1976 (Plate XX: nn; Figure XX) 茵殿尾夜蛾

Distribution: Thailand, China (GD, HK), Malay peninsula, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines (Holloway, 1985; Jia & Yu, 2018); widespread in Hong Kong.
Status & ecology: frequent, found from February through November in secondary forest, plantation forest, tall shrubland, mangroves, abandoned agricultural land and grassland up to 470m elevation. Reared from Rhus hypoleuca [K. Li].
Similar species: Anuga supraconstricta Yoshimoto (1993), recently recorded from Nan Ling (Wang & Kishida, 2011) has a paler costal third to the h/w, making the dark discal stigma more obvious. The f/w orbicular stigma in A. indigofera has only the basal edge infilled with black, rather than the whole stigmata infilled with black.
Taxonomy: previously listed for Hong Kong as Anuga multiplicans, the South Asian sister species, which Holloway (1985) notes has the same key internal and external morphology.

Posted on February 25, 2020 10:50 AM by hkmoths