Zurobata vacillans
Appearance
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Genus: | Zurobata |
Species: | Z. vacillans
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Binomial name | |
Zurobata vacillans (Walker, 1864)
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Zurobata vacillans is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1864.[1] It is found in the Oriental tropics of India, Sri Lanka,[2] Taiwan and New Guinea.[3]
The caterpillar is unusual in having host plants other than typical green plants. The larva feeds on fungus on dead leaves, several lichens and Coccoidea (scale insects).
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- ^ "Species Details: Zurobata vacillans Walker, 1864". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News (79). Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara: 1–57 – via Academia.
- ^ "Zurobata vacillans Walker". Digital Moths of Japan. Retrieved 28 March 2018.