Hemiscopis violacea T.P.Lucas
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Odontiinae
- Genus: Hemiscopis
- Distribution: Sabah, Australia (Q).
- Habitat: Lowland and hill primary & disturbed forest, swamp forest, cultivated areas; <1080m.
- Wing Length: 10mm
Taxonomy
The holotype of Pyrausta violacea T.P.Lucas 1892: 263-264, is from Australia (Q), Brisbane).
comb. n. to Hemiscopis Shaffer et. al. (1996).
- syn. Noorda nyctopa Turner, 1908: 102. TL Australia (Q), (Brisbane). Syn. n. (Shaffer et. al. 1996).
Swinhoe 1902: 51 sinks it to H. suffusalis (Walker, [1866] 1865) but here we treat it as a good sp.
Description
Similar to H. cinerea Warren, 1892 and H. suffusalis (Walker, [1866] 1865) in patterning but a rather dull sooty brown, mainly lacking the violet sheen typical of many Hemiscopis spp. Schulze (2000) taxon #562.
Specimen 10ANIC-09887 DNA sequenced in BOLD.
Life History
Foodplants: H. suffusalis feeds on Dipterocarpaceae and Phyllanthaceae, but H. purpureum (Inoue) and H. violacea (Lucas) feed on Thymelaeaceae. Both Phyllanthaceae & Thymelaeaceae produce similar alkaloids.
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References
- Lucas, T.P. (1892) On twenty species of new Australian Lepidoptera. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. n.s. 2 (7): 249-266.
- Swinhoe, C. (1902) New and little-known species of Eastern and Australian moths Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser.7, 10 (6): 47-51.
- Turner, A.J. (1908) New Australian lepidoptera of the families Noctuidae and Pyralidae, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 32: 55-109.
- Shaffer, M., & Nielsen, E.S. & Horak, M., (1996) Pyraloidea (In Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangji (Eds.) Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia: 164 - 199, CSIRO, Australia.
- Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die DiversitÀt von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany: 350 pp.