Bocula pallens

Bocula pallens is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882. It is found in northern India,[1] and Sri Lanka.

Bocula pallens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Bocula
Species:
B. pallens
Binomial name
Bocula pallens
(Moore, 1882)
Synonyms
  • Poaphila pallens Moore, 1882

Description

Its wingspan is about 22 mm. The male has fasciculate (bundled) antennae. Anal tuft very large. Underside of forewings with a patch of differently formed scales on median nervure. Hindwings shortened, with a large patch of flocculent (woolly) scaled below costa, the costal neuration being distorted downwards. Male with a patch of curved woolly hair on apical part of margin of hindwing. Male ochreous brown. Forewings with traces of antemedial, medial, and postmedial speckled lines. A purplish rufous marginal band narrowing to apex and outer angle and with a slight indentation near apex. A marginal series of pale specks present. Hindwings whitish. Female has inner edge of the marginal band of hindwings more curved inwards at centre.[2]

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