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Asota egens is a species of noctuoid moths in the family Erebidae. It is found from Japan and the Oriental tropics, east to New Guinea.

Asota egens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Asota
Species:	A. egens
Binomial name
Asota egens (Walker, 1854)
Synonyms
Hypsa egens Walker, 1854 Hypsa nebulosa Butler, 1875 Asota biformis Rothschild, 1897 Asota indica Jordan 1897 Asota celebensis Tams, 1935 (nec. Hopfer 1874)

The wingspan is 54–60 mm.

The larvae have been recorded on Ficus species.

Subspecies

• Asota egens andamana (Andaman Islands)
• Asota egens confinis (Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao and Sibuyan island)
• Asota egens egens (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Peninsula Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam)
• Asota egens indica (India)
• Asota egens intermissa (Indonesia)
• Asota egens inversa (Indonesia)
• Asota egens macrosticta (Enggano)
• Asota egens nebulosa (Borneo)
• Asota egens onusta (Nias)
• Asota egens reducta (Philippines: Palawan, Mindoro)
• Asota egens sumbana (Sumba)

References

External links

• egens egens info
• The Moths of Borneo

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