"Prominent moth" redirects here. For the moth family called "prominents", see Notodontidae.

Somera viridifusca, the prominent moth, is a moth of the family Notodontidae described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in Sri Lanka, Sundaland, the Philippines, Sulawesi, the north-eastern Himalayas, Sikkim in India, Hainan and Yunnan in China[1] and in Taiwan.

Camouflage

Description

Males have brown pedipalps, greenish head and thorax vertices and a fuscous abdomen, with a greenish extremity. The forewings are bright green with a brown patch below and beyond the end of the cell (absent in some specimens), with two subbasal waved dark lines, two antemedial and four postmedial streaks and a single submarginal streak has brownish blotches. The hindwings are fuscous.[2]

References

  1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Somera viridifusca Walker, 1855". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
  2. ^ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. p. 154 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.