Syntomoides imaon

Taxobox
name = Syntomoides imaon


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image_caption = "Syntomoides imaon"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Macrolepidoptera
superfamilia = Noctuoidea
familia = Arctiidae
subfamilia = Ctenuchinae
subfamilia_authority =
genus = Syntomoides
species = "S. imaon"
binomial = "Syntomoides imaon"
binomial_authority = (Cramer, 1780)

"Syntomoides imaon" is a moth of family Arctiidae subfamily Ctenuchinae. The systematics of the subfamily is under revision.

Description

The moth has a wingspan of 34 mm. The frons and collar are yellow; metathorax with a yellow streak ; abdomen with the first yellow band sometimes obsolescent. Fore wing with the hyaline patches large, one filling the cell, another nearly the whole interno-median inter-space, one at junction of veins 2 and 3, two subapical and two submarginal ; in some specimens there is a long streak between veins 5 and 6, which is the form named "S. sargania", in others it is reduced to a spot, and in others entirely wanting. Hind wing with a subbasal hyaline patch extending hardly, or not at all, beyond the cell. Tips of antennae and proximal joints of tarsi white. The spots of the fore wing vary considerably in size.

Distribution

Sikkim, Khasi hills and throughout India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar.

References

Hampson, G. F. 1892. Fauna of British India. Moths. Volume 1. Taylor and Francis. London.