Bocula pallens

Bocula pallens
Bocula pallens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Calpinae
Genus: Bocula
Species: B. pallens
Binomial name
Bocula pallens
(Moore , 1882)
Synonyms
  • Poaphila pallens Moore, 1882

Bocula pallens is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in northern India,[1] and Sri Lanka.

Description

Wingspan about 22mm. Male with fasciculate antennae. Anal tuft very large. Underside of fore wings with a patch of differently formed scales on median nervure. Hind wings shortened, with a large patch of flocculent scaled below costa, the costal neuration being distorted downwards. Male with a patch of curved woolly hair on apical part of margin of hind wing. Male ochreous brown. Fore wings 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. Hind wings whitish. Female has inner edge of the marginal band of hind wings more curved inwards at center. [2]

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