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Maurilia iconica
Maurilia iconica is a moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1857. It is found in Indo-Australian tropics of Sri Lanka, Australia to the islands of Samoa, Rarotonga and New Caledonia.
From the article Maurilia iconica on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Forewings gray to reddish in variable patterns. Some specimen possess a crescent shaped reniform stigma. Dots of posterior half of the postmedial row is irregular. Caterpillar dark brown with some pale brown marbles. All subdorsal, dorsolateral, lateral and spiracular lines are whitish and broken. Setae blackish. Inter segments are greenish or orange tinged. Pupation occur in a whitish silken cocoon. Cocoon semi ovoid, dirty fuscous in color and boat shaped. Larval host plants include Vatica, Terminalia, Shorea, Anogeissus, Tectona and Saccharum species.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 519469.