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Eudocima iridescens
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Description
Eudocima iridescens (Lucus, 1894)
(Figs 8: E–F, 18: K, 23: R–S, 30: K, 94: J–L)
Eudocima iridescens is strongly sexually dimorphic with females having a dorsal forewing green transverse band coming to a point at the distal end. It has no hindwing medial patch, separating it from E. homaena but not from all specimens of E. caesar. It can be separated from E. caesar by the hindwing marginal band extending to the inner margin, versus extending slightly beyond vein Cu 2 in E. caesar. Also, E. iridescens has a black tipped orange dorsal abdomen, whereas the dorsal abdomen is orange throughout in E. caesar and E. homaena (Zilli et al. 2017). It is known from New Guinea and Queensland, Australia, along with a number of surrounding islands.
Notes
Published as part of Borth, Robert J. & Kons, Hugo L., 2022, Mitochondrial genetics of Ophiderini, with a new species from the Eudocima phalonia species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae), pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 5148 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5148.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6605484
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lucus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Eudocima
- Species
- iridescens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eudocima iridescens (Lucus, 1894) sec. Borth & Kons, 2022
References
- Zilli, A., Brou, V. A., Klem, C. & Zaspel, J. (2017) The Eudocima Billberg, 1820 of the Australian Region (Lepidoptera: Erebidae). In: Telnov, D. (Ed.), Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Vol. 3. The Entomological Society of Latvia, Riga, pp. 631 - 655, pls. 152 - 166.