Somena scintillans

Yellow tail tussock moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lymantriidae
Genus: Somena
Species: S. scintillans
Binomial name
Somena scintillans
(Walker, 1856)[1][2]
Synonyms
  • Artaxa scintillans
  • Euproctis scintillans
  • Nygmia scintillans
  • Prothesia scintillans

The Yellow tail tussock moth, (Somena scintillans) is a moth in the Lymantriidae family. It is found in northern India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Andaman Islands.[3] Though considered as a minor pest, larva can be sporadically serious in certain regions.

Description

Head yellow color. Thorax brownish. Abdomen black or yellow with orange anal tuft. Fore wing vinous brown, irrorated with dark scales, which color extends as two spurs across the yellow marginal area below the apex and to center of margin, but sometimes not reaching the margin. Costa often yellowish. Hind wings yellow, or in some specimens fuscous brown with a broad yellow margin.[4]

It is a polyphagous species. Larva dark brown with a series of crimson lateral tubercles on a yellow line bearing tufts of grey hair. The third somite banded with yellow. Dorsal tufts of short brown hair on fourth, fifth and eleventh somites. Fifth to tenth somites with a broad, dorsal yellow stripe. There is a yellow spot on anal somite.

Larva is known to damage apple plantations,[5] and commonly collected on ragi, castor, pigeonpea, cowpea, field bean, cucurbits, mango, citrus, hibiscus, rose, ficus, coffee, tea, and many more.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Euproctis scintillans (Walker 1856) on taxapad.com
  2. ↑ Wang, H.-S. ; M. Wang & X.-L. Fan, 2011: Notes on the tribe Nygmiini (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from Nanling National Nature Reserve, with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 2887: 57–68.
  3. ↑ Somena at funet
  4. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-i". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "SOMENA SCINTILLANS WALKER (LEPIDOPTERA: LYMANTRIIDAE) ON APPLE PLANTATIONS IN JAMMU". Research Gate. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Somena scintillans (Walker". ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
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