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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 Guenée, 1852, Hist. Nat. Insectes, Spec. gén. Lépid.
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 Hübner.
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 (Bänziger, 1982; Kuroko & Lewvanich,
1993).
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