Bastilla maturata Walker

Ophisma maturata Walker, 1858, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 14: 1382.

Ophiusa falcata Moore, 1882, Descr. new Indian lepid. Insects Colln W.S. Atkinson

Diagnosis

The general structure of the pattern is similar to that of.

Biology

The larva was described by Sevastopulo (1947). The head is very dark brown, marked with creamy yellow, pink and black, particularly a large, pale yellow lateral patch. The body is pale pinkish, densely irrorated with specks that from three blackish dorsal lines, then a greyish stripe edged below by a black line, followed by an olive-green lateral stripe, a grey sublateral stripe and then another olive-green stripe. The tubercles on A8 are black and red. Pupation was in a rather gummy silk cocoon spun in a curled leaf; the pupa has a white bloom. The larva was found when mature, so no host plant was recorded. The adult is known as a fruit piercer in Thailand (Bänziger, 1982; Kuroko & Lewvanich, 1993).

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