Stictoptera cucullioides
{{Short description|Species of moth}}
{{Taxobox
| image = A50-20150416-044 (19353443829).jpg
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Euteliidae
| genus = Stictoptera
| species = S. cucullioides
| binomial = Stictoptera cucullioides
| binomial_authority = Guenée, 1852
| synonyms =
- Stictoptera subobliqua (Walker, 1857)
- Steiria subobliqua Walker, 1857
- Steiria variabilis Moore, 1882
- Stictoptera timesia Swinhoe, 1893
}}
Stictoptera cucullioides is a moth of the family Euteliidae. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka to the Bismarck Islands and Queensland. It is an introduced species in Hawaii, where it is found on Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii.
Description
In the male, the head and thorax are greyish brown. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings greyish brown with numerous indistinct waved lines. Orbicular and reniform stigmata indistinct, where the latter with a few raised scaled on it. A series of small marginal lunules can be seen. Hindwings opalescent hyaline (glass like), where the veins and broad outer band are fuscous with pale colored cilia.{{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 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
Ecology
Larvae have been recorded on Mesua and Calophyllum species (including Calophyllum inophyllum) and have been reared on Garcinia species. Other recorded food plants include Clusia rosea, Garcinia cambogia and Mammea americana.{{cite web |last1=Herbison-Evans |first1=Don |last2=Crossley |first2=Stella |name-list-style=amp |date=10 September 2015 |url=http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/stic/cucullioides.html |title=Stictoptera cucullioides Guenée, 1852 |website=Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths |accessdate=23 July 2018}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web |last=Holloway |first=Jeremy Daniel |url=http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-14/stictopterinae/stictopterinae_1_5.php |title=Stictoptera cuculloides Guenée |website=The Moths of Borneo |accessdate=January 22, 2019}}
- {{cite book |last=Zimmerman |first=Elwood C. |authorlink=Elwood Zimmerman |date=1958 |title=Insects of Hawaii |volume=7 Macrolepidoptera |publisher=University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu|hdl=10125/7336 }}
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