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Hyposidra
talaca
Walker
Lagyra talaca Walker, 1860, List Specimens lepid Insects Colln
Br. Mus., 20: 59.
Lagyra successaria Walker, 1860, Ibid, 20: 60.
Chizala decipiens Walker, 1860, Ibid, 20: 263.
Chizala deceptatura Walker, 1860, Ibid, 20: 264.
Lagyra humiferata Walker, 1862, Ibid, 26: 1484.
Lagyra rigusaria Walker, 1862, Ibid, 26: 1485.
Lagyra bombycaria Walker, 1866, Ibid, 35: 1529.
Hyposidra vampyraria Snellen, 1880, Tijdschr. Ent., 24: 90.
Lagyra myciterna Druce, 1888, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1888: 577.
Lagyra flaccida Lucas, 1894, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales (2), 8:154.
Hyposidra khasiana Warren, 1894, Novit. zool., 1: 681.
Hyposidra schistacea Warren, 1896, Ibid, 3: 305.
Hyposidra grisea Warren, 1902, lbid, 9: 372.
Hyposidra talaca Walker; Holloway, 1976: 75.
Hyposidra
talaca 
Hyposidra
talaca
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Diagnosis.
Both sexes
are blackish grey with diffusely darker fasciation, the female much larger than
the male and with a more crenulate margin.
Geographical
range. Indo-Australian
tropics from N.E. Himalaya to Queensland and Solomons.
Habitat
preference. This
is a lowland species found in forested localities, particularly alluvial forest
during the Mulu survey, and in disturbed and cultivated areas. In Seram it was
particularly abundant in a zone of shifting cultivation.
Biology.
The larva is
often recorded as a defoliator and flower feeder on tree crops and can attain
pest status. It is brown-grey, twig-like, with transverse rows of white dots on
each segment in the central part of the body (Singh, 1953; Sugi, 1987, colour
illustration; Bell, MS; M.J. Bascombe, pers comm.).
It
is polyphagous, recorded from the following plant taxa (Singh;Bell; Browne,
1968; unpublished records from IIE and Forest Research Institute of Malaysia).
Anacardiaceae (Anacardium); Bombacaceae (Bombax); Combretaceae (Terminalia);
Compositae (Chromolaena, Gynura, Mikania); Cupressaceae (Cupressus);
Euphorbiaceae (Aleurites, Aporusa, Bischofia,Breynia, Glochidion, Hevea,
Manihot); Moraceae (Ficus, Morus); Myrtaceae (Psidium); Polygonaceae
(Polygonum); Rosaceae (Rubus); Rubiaceae (Cinchona, Coffea,
Mussaenda); Rutaceae (Citrus, Euodia); Sapindaceae (Schleichera); Sterculiaceae
(Theobroma); Theaceae (Camellia); Verbenaceae (Tectona).
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