Eupterote fabia

Eupterote fabia
	Male Eupterote fabia (Cramer 1780), upperside, wing venation, head from lateral
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Eupterotidae
Genus:	Eupterote
Species:	E. fabia
Binomial name
	Eupterote fabia; (Cramer, 1780)
Synonyms
	Phalaena fabia Cramer, [1779]; Eupterote lucia Butler, 1885; Eurhodia acuminalba van Eecke, 1924; Eupterote alterata Moore, 1884; Eupterote auriflua Moore, 1884; Eupterote discordans Butler, 1881; Eupterote fasciata Moore, 1887; Eupterote gyras Swinhoe, 1885; Eupterote immutata Moore, 1884; Eupterote mutans Walker, 1855; Eupterote ochripicta Moore, 1879; Eupterote permutata Moore, 1884;

Eupterote fabia is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Pieter Cramer in 1780.^[1] It is found in India,^[2] Sri Lanka and Bhutan.

The wingspan is 90–130 mm. The ground colour of the adults is bright yellow.^[3]

The larvae feed on the leaves of cardamom and coffee.^[4]

Subspecies

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Eupterote fabia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved October 17, 2018. Note: This source gives a year of description of 1799.
^ "Taxonomy Browser: Eupterote fabia". Barcode of Life Data System. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
^ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. pp. 56–57 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
^ David, B. Vasantharaj & Ananthakrishnan, T. N. (2004) General and Applied Entomology. Tata McGraw-Hill. page 670.

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