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Thyas
juno Dalman
Noctua
juno Dalman, 1823, Anal. Entom.,
1823: 52.
Ophideres
elegans Hoeven, 1840, Tijdschr. Natuurl. Gesch. Physiol.,
7: 280.
Lagoptera
multicolor Guen�e, 1852, Hist. Nat. Insectes, Spec. g�n. L�pid.
7:
226.
Thyas
bella Bremer & Grey, 1853, Etudes ent.,
1: 66.
Dermaleipa
juno ceramensis Prout, 1922, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley,
1: 224.
Dermaleipa
juno f. renalis Bryk, 1948, Ark. Zool.,
41A (1): 120.
Diagnosis.
See Thyas
honesta H�bner.
Geographical
range. Indian Subregion, China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Borneo, Java,
Sulawesi, S. Moluccas.
Habitat
preference. Only two specimens have been recorded in recent surveys, both
from upper montane forest: at 1770m on Bukit Monkobo in Sabah; at 1780m on G.
Mulu.
Biology.
Sugi (1987) illustrated the larva. It appears to be identical to that
illustrated for T.
coronata Fabricius
and described below.
The
host-plants noted by Sugi, by Miyata (1983) and by Robinson et
al. 2001)
were Castanea,
Quercus
(Fagaceae),
Juglans
and
Pterocarya
(Juglandaceae).
The
adult is a fruit piercer in Thailand (B�nziger, 1982; Kuroko & Lewvanich,
1993).
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