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Asota plana is a moth in the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found from the Oriental tropics east to New Guinea.

Asota plana
From Japan
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Asota
Species:	A. plana
Binomial name
Asota plana Walker, 1854
Synonyms
Hypsa persecta Butler, 1875 Aganais albifera Felder, 1874 Asota plana f. confluens Strand, 1915 Asota centralis Rothschild, 1897 Asota cincta Rothschild, 1897 Asota complana Walker, 1875 Asota commixta Rothschild, 1897 Asota fergussonis Rothschild, 1897 Asota intermedia Rothschild, 1897 Hypsa lacteata Butler, 1881 Asota ternatensis Rothschild, 1897 Asota transiens Rothschild, 1897

Description

The wingspan is about 56 mm. The forewings have a large white patch filling the lower half of the cell and the whole area below except inner margin and extending to near outer margin. Its upper edge has two dentitions, its outer edge is irregular and a large white spot at upper angle of cell. Hindwings with the narrow marginal band. There is an extra spot towards anal angle.[1] Larva have a large head with sparsely distributed hairs on its body with dark purplish-brown ground color. The thoracic somites are pale red and there is a narrow transverse yellow band on fourth to terminal somites.[2]

Ecology

Larvae have been recorded on Ficus species, where they rest on the underside of the leaf.[3]

Subspecies

• Asota plana albifera (India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sikkim, Singapore, Taiwan)
• Asota plana centralis (Andaman Islands, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan)
• Asota plana cincta (Indonesia)
• Asota plana commixta (Indonesia)
• Asota plana fergussonis (Papua New Guinea)
• Asota plana intermedia (Indonesia)
• Asota plana lacteata (Taiwan)
• Asota plana persecta (Indonesia)
• Asota plana plana (China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, Thailand, northern Vietnam)
• Asota plana transiens (Enggano)

References

External links

• plana plana info
• The Snouted Tigers (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Aganainae) of Papua Indonesia
• Asota plana Caterpillar

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