Ophiusa disjungens
{{Short description|Species of moth}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Anua disjungens.JPG
| image_caption = Male
| image2 = Anua tongaensis.JPG
| image2_caption = Female
| taxon = Ophiusa disjungens
| authority = (Walker, 1858)
| synonyms =
- Othiodes disjungens Walker, 1858
- Anua tongaensis Hampson, 1913
- Ophiusa tongaensis (Hampson, 1913)
- Anua timorensis Strand, 1913
- Anua timorensis Gaede, 1938
- Minucia indiscriminata Hampson, 1893
- Ophiusa disjungens indiscriminata (Hampson, 1893)
- Ophiusa indiscriminata (Hampson, 1893)
- Anua indiscriminata (Hampson, 1893)
}}
Ophiusa disjungens, the guava moth,{{cite web |url=http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_noct/GuavaMoth.htm |title=Guava Moth - Ophiusa disjungens |website=Brisbane Insects and Spiders |accessdate=21 January 2019}} is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found in south-east Asia and the south Pacific, including Thailand, Japan, Tonga and New South Wales and Queensland. The adult is a fruit piercer.{{cite web |last=Holloway |first=Jeremy Daniel |url=http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/ophiusini/ophiusini_3_2.php | title=Ophiusa disjungens Walker | website=The Moths of Borneo | accessdate=21 January 2019}}
Description
Similar to Ophiusa discriminans, differs in head and thorax being yellowish grey. Abdomen lack black patch. Forewings yellowish grey without black specks. A maculate line runs beyond the postmedial line. A grey and dark patch beyond the sub-apical spots, and hardly a trace of the patch at anal angle. A dentate sub-marginal line with the area beyond it reddish. Hindwing orange with the black reduced to a submarginal medial patch.{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |volume=Moths - Vol. II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
Larva pale brownish, with numerous waved longitudinal black lines, between which are black specks series. There are some red between each pair of legs, and a black patch between each pair of prolegs. Small pared dorsal prominences found on 11th somites. The larvae feed on various Myrtaceae species, including Eucalyptus, Syncarpia glomulifera and Psidium guajava.{{cite web |last1=Herbison-Evans |first1=Don |last2=Crossley |first2=Stella |name-list-style=amp |date=25 March 2016 |url=http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/calp/disjungens.html |title=Ophiusa disjungens (Walker, 1858) Guava Moth |website=Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths |accessdate=21 January 2019}}
Gallery
image:Ophiusa disjungens female dorsal.jpg|Female, dorsal view
image:Ophiusa disjungens female ventral.jpg|Female, ventral view
image:Ophiusa disjungens male dorsal.jpg|Male, dorsal view
image:Ophiusa disjungens male ventral.jpg|Male, ventral view
References
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External links
- [http://www.jpmoth.org/Noctuidae/Catocalinae/Ophiusa_disjungens_indiscriminata.html Japanese Moths]
- [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23043604 Characterization of the deoxyuridine triphosphatase gene of Ophiusa disjungens nucleopolyhedrovirus.]
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Category:Moths described in 1858
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