Hypocala violacea (Butler, 1879)

Sivasankaran, Kuppusamy, Anand, Sekar, Mathew, Pratheesh & Ignacimuthu, Savarimuthu, 2017, Checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats, India, Check List 13 (6), pp. 1101-1120 : 1113

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.1101

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6494883

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Hypocala violacea (Butler, 1879)
status

 

Hypocala violacea (Butler, 1879)

Hypocala violacea Butler 1879: 6 — Holloway, 1976: 35.

Hypocala clarissima Butler 1892: 21 .

Hypocala kebeae Bethune-Baker 1906: 249 .

Material examined. Table 3; Figure 6

Remarks. This species differs from H. subsatura its forewings which are uniform rufous and violet brown irrorated with dark specks. The forewing underside with black markings are reduced. The hindwing underside is broadly pale brown over the anterior half, with dark striae.

Bethune-Baker GT (1906) New Noctuidae from British New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae, Hazell Watson & Viney, LD, London, 13: 191 - 287.

Butler AG (1892) On the genus Hypocala, a group of noctuid moths. The Annals Magazine of Natural History (series 6) 10: 13 - 22, pl. 3.

Holloway JD (1976) The Moths of Borneo with Special Reference to Mont Kinabalu. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur, 264 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Hypocala