Maurilia iconica
{{Short description|Species of moth}}
{{Taxobox
| image = Maurilia iconica (5942963690).jpg
| image_caption =
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Nolidae
| genus = Maurilia
| species = M. iconica
| binomial = Maurilia iconica
| binomial_authority = (Walker, 1857)
| synonyms =
- Anomis iconica Walker, 1857 [1858]
- Briarda cervina Walker, 1866
- Anomis candida instabilis Butler, 1889
- Maurilia bifascia Gaede, 1915
- Maurilia iconica ab. iconicoides Strand, 1915
- Maurilia tunicata Swinhoe, 1918
- Maurilia undaira Swinhoe, 1918
- Maurilia fortis Swinhoe, 1918
- Maurilia dalama Swinhoe, 1918
- Maurilia gilva Swinhoe, 1919
- Acontia elima Swinhoe, 1919
- Maurilia iconicoides Gaede, 1938
- Maurilia subiconica Kobes, 1997
}}
Maurilia iconica is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1857.{{cite web |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/4b9da0aac78acfb62ec490bfc1ae04d1 |title=Species Details: Maurilia iconica Walker, 1857 |website=Catalogue of Life |accessdate=12 November 2018}} It is found in Indo-Australian tropics{{cite web |url=http://www.jpmoth.org/Nolidae/Chloephorinae/Maurilia_iconica.html |title=チャオビリンガ Maurilia iconica (Walker, 1858)|website=Digital Moths of Japan|accessdate=12 November 2018}} of Sri Lanka,{{cite journal |last1=Koçak |first1=Ahmet Ömer |last2=Kemal |first2=Muhabbet |date=20 February 2012 |url=https://www.academia.edu/1782757/ |title=Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka |journal=Cesa News |publisher=Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara |issue=79 |pages=1–57 |via=Academia}} Australia to the islands of Samoa, Rarotonga and New Caledonia.{{cite web |url=https://www.papua-insects.nl/insect%20orders/Lepidoptera/Nolidae/Chloephorinae/Careini/Maurilia/Maurilia%20iconica.htm |title=The Chloephorinae, Careini (Lepidoptera: Nolidae) of Papua Indonesia |website=Papua-Insects.nl |publisher=The Papua Insects Foundation |accessdate=12 November 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/78_Nolidae/02_Chloephorinae/3998_Maurilia_iconica/Maurilia%20inconica.htm |title=Maurilia iconica (Walker, 1858) チャオビリンガ, Cat. 3998 |website=Digital Moths of Japan|accessdate=12 November 2018}}
Description
Forewings gray to reddish in variable patterns. Some specimen possess a crescent shaped reniform stigma. Dots of posterior half of the postmedial row is irregular. Caterpillar dark brown with some pale brown marbles. All subdorsal, dorsolateral, lateral and spiracular lines are whitish and broken. Setae blackish. Inter segments are greenish or orange tinged. Pupation occur in a whitish silken cocoon. Cocoon semi ovoid, dirty fuscous in color and boat shaped.{{cite web |url=http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-18/nolinae/nolinae_3_3.php |title="Aquis" orbicularis Walker |website=The Moths of Borneo|accessdate=12 November 2018}}
Larval host plants include Vatica, Terminalia, Shorea, Anogeissus, Tectona and Saccharum species.{{cite web |last1=Herbison-Evans |first1=Don |last2=Crossley |first2=Stella |name-list-style=amp |date=14 March 2017 |url=http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/chlo/iconica.html |title=Maurilia iconica (Walker, 1857) |website=Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths |accessdate=12 November 2018}}