Amyna punctum
{{Short description|Species of moth}}
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| taxon = Amyna punctum
| authority = (Fabricius, 1794)
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- Noctua punctum Fabricius, 1794
- Noctua annulata Fabricius, 1794
- Amyna selenampha Guenée, 1852
- Alamis spoliata Walker, 1858
- Hama latipennis Wallengren, 1860
- Amyna subtracta Walker, 1862
- Perigea trivenefica Wallengren, 1863
- Perigea urba Wallengren, 1863
- Hadena latipennis Walker, 1865
- Perigea natalensis Wallengren, 1865
- Hesperimorpha paradoxa Saalmüller, 1880
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Amyna punctum is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794. This moth can be found throughout subtropical African countries such as South Africa, Madagascar and Australasian countries like India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Borneo and the Andaman Islands.{{cite web | url=http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/272906 | title=Amyna punctum distribution | website=India Biodiversity Portal | accessdate=3 August 2016}}
Description
Its wingspan is about 30–36 mm. Forewings of the male with no vesicle in cell. Fuscous brown with an olive tinge in body. Legs ringed with ochreous. Forewings with irregularly waved black line on sub-basal, antemedial, postmedial and sub-marginal areas. Submarginal line indistinct. There is a marginal specks series can be seen. Orbicular and reniform very indistinct, where reniform with its lower part obscured by a prominent ochreous spot in the typical form. Hindwings with traces of a postmedial waved line. Ventral side suffused with white. There is a crenulate sub-marginal line of hindwings can be seen.{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |year=1894 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
Ecology
The larvae feed on Croton (Euphorbiaceae),{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/acontiinae/amyna/#punctum |title=Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1794) |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=13 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113165742/http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/acontiinae/amyna/#punctum |archive-date=13 November 2018 |url-status=dead }} Triticum vulgare, Gossypium species, and Tricitum aestivum.{{cite web | url=http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/EREBIDAE/BOLETOBIINAE/amyna%20punctum.htm | title=Amyna punctum, (Fabricius, 1794) | website=African Moths | accessdate=3 August 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325111758/http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/EREBIDAE/BOLETOBIINAE/amyna%20punctum.htm | archive-date=2016-03-25 | url-status=dead }}
References
External links
- [https://archive.today/20130116093424/http://africanmoths.com/pages/NOCTUIIDAE/EUSTROTINAE/amyna_punctum.htm "Amyna punctum, (Fabricius, 1794)"]. African Moths. Archived 16 January 2016.
- {{cite web |last1=Nielsen |first1=E. S. |last2=Edwards |first2=E. D. |last3=Rangsi |first3=T. V. |name-list-style=amp |date=1996 |url=http://www.lepbarcoding.org/australia/species.php?region=1&id=75229 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211626/http://www.lepbarcoding.org/australia/species.php?region=1&id=75229 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |title=Amyna punctum |website=Lepidoptera Barcode of Life |accessdate=13 November 2018}} - with images
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Category:Moths described in 1794
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