Hyposidra talaca Walker

Lagyra talaca Walker, 1860, List Specimens lepid Insects Colln Br. Mus ., 20: 59.

Lagyra successaria Walker, 1860, Ibid, 20: 60.

Chizala decipiens Walker, 1860, Ibid, 20: 263.

Chizala deceptatura Walker, 1860, Ibid, 20: 264.

Lagyra humiferata Walker, 1862, Ibid, 26: 1484.

Lagyra rigusaria Walker, 1862, Ibid, 26: 1485.

Lagyra bombycaria Walker, 1866, Ibid, 35: 1529.

Hyposidra vampyraria Snellen, 1880, Tijdschr. Ent ., 24: 90.

Lagyra myciterna Druce, 1888, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond ., 1888: 577.

Lagyra flaccida Lucas, 1894, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales (2), 8 :154.

Hyposidra khasiana Warren, 1894, Novit. zool., 1: 681.

Hyposidra schistacea Warren, 1896, Ibid, 3: 305.

Hyposidra grisea Warren, 1902, lbid, 9: 372.

Hyposidra talaca Walker; Holloway, 1976: 75.

Diagnosis

Both sexes are blackish grey with diffusely darker fasciation, the female much larger than the male and with a more crenulate margin.

Biology

The larva is often recorded as a defoliator and flower feeder on tree crops and can attain pest status. It is brown-grey, twig-like, with transverse rows of white dots on each segment in the central part of the body (Singh, 1953; Sugi, 1987, colour illustration; Bell, MS; M.J. Bascombe, pers comm.). It is polyphagous, recorded from the following plant taxa (Singh;Bell; Browne, 1968; unpublished records from IIE and Forest Research Institute of Malaysia). Anacardiaceae (Anacardium); Bombacaceae (Bombax); Combretaceae (Terminalia); Compositae (Chromolaena, Gynura, Mikania); Cupressaceae (Cupressus); Euphorbiaceae (Aleurites, Aporusa, Bischofia,Breynia, Glochidion, Hevea, Manihot); Moraceae (Ficus, Morus); Myrtaceae (Psidium); Polygonaceae (Polygonum); Rosaceae (Rubus); Rubiaceae (Cinchona, Coffea, Mussaenda); Rutaceae (Citrus, Euodia); Sapindaceae (Schleichera); Sterculiaceae (Theobroma); Theaceae (Camellia); Verbenaceae (Tectona).

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