Athetis reclusa
{{Short description|Species of moth}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Athetis reclusa (15250004534).jpg
| image_caption = Clump Point, Mission Beach, Queensland, Australia
| taxon = Athetis reclusa
| authority = (Walker, 1862)
| synonyms =
- Prodenia reclusa Walker, 1862
- Caradrina insignifica Bethune-Baker, 1906
- Elydna sparna Wileman & West, 1929
}}
Athetis reclusa is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1862. It is found from Sundaland to New Caledonia and Fiji.{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/xyleninae/athetis/#reclusa |title=Athetis reclusa (Walker, 1862) |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=24 January 2018}} The habitat consists of open areas from sea level up to 1,200 meters.{{cite web |last=Holloway |first=Jeremy Daniel |url=http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-12/amphipyrinae/amphipyrinae_12_1.php |title=Athetis reclusa Walker |website=The Moths of Borneo |access-date=24 October 2020}}
Description
The wingspan is about 25 mm.{{cite web |last1=Herbison-Evans |first1=Don |last2=Crossley |first2=Stella |name-list-style=amp|date=7 February 2018 |url=http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/amph/reclusa.html |title=Athetis reclusa (Walker, 1862) |website=Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths |accessdate=13 January 2019}} Male with a cleft corneous ridge clothed with scales on vertex of head. Abdomen clothed with woolly pile. It is a stoutly built moth. In male, collar and abdomen black. Second joint of palpi black. Forewings with the basal area clothed with ochreous hair. Hindwings with yellowish base. Some specimens have a black speck in cell of forewing and a series of specks on the postmedial line and margin. The female is pale chestnut brownish. Forewings with very faint traces of usual markings of male. There is a prominent ochreous postmedial line slightly curved from the costa to vein 2, which is non-waved. Hindwings are much paler.{{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}} {{PD-notice}}
Ecology
The larvae feed on the leaves of Brassica species, as well as Arachis hypogaea.