Ercheia cyllaria is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779. It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,[2] Japan, Indochina, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Seram and the Kai Islands.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Ercheia |
| Species: | E. cyllaria
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Description edit
Its head, thorax and forewings are pale reddish brown. The collar and patagia are often streaked with black. Forewings with indistinct, waved antemedial line and a very much excurved postmedial line beyond the cell. A waved sub-marginal line is present. Orbicular is a speck and reniform is indistinctly dark outlined. Abdomen and hindwings fuscous black. Hindwings with three medial white spots, which may be disconnected and the costal spot obsolescent or conjoined into a band. A spot near center of outer margin. Cilia white at apex and outer angle. Ventral side ochreous white, irrorated (sprinkled) with black. Forewings with oblique crenulate postmedial line and broad sub-marginal diffused band. Hindwings similar, but with a lunule at end of cell and the line more irregular. Colours and spots can vary in subspecies.[3]
The larvae feed on Asparagus, Brassica, Dalbergia and Grewia species.[4]
References edit
- ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Ercheia cyllaria (Cramer 1779)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on January 15, 2019. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ^ Ercheia cyllaria 曲耳裳蛾.
{{cite encyclopedia}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Ercheia cyllaria Cramer.
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