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Selepa
celtis
Moore
Selepa celtis Moore, [1860] 1858, Cat. Lepid. Insects Mus. E. Ind. Co.,
2: 353.
Subrita?
curviferella
Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 35: 1745.
Selepa celtis ab.
celtisella
Strand, 1917, Arch. Naturgesch., 82 (A1): 82.
Selepa celtis celtisella Gaede, 1937, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 11: 396.
Diagnosis. The forewings are a more pinkish rufous grey than in other
species, and the hindwings are much paler. Females tend to have the forewings
more strongly marked than males. The postmedial is rather squarely looped,
finely double, and the paler antemedial is relatively regular in course, set
about 1mm in from the margin (see also the next two species which both have
darker hindwings). Some variants have an oval black area in the centre of the
forewing, and the tornus is usually bisected by a diffuse blackish bar. In the
male genitalia the saccular processes are slender and tend to follow the margins
of the valves. The ventral sections of the tegumen are relatively narrow. The
female has a globular bursa with a single scobinate signum at one-third.
Geographical range. Throughout the Oriental tropics, north to Taiwan and the
Ryukyus, also Kei and Queensland.
Habitat preference. Three specimens taken in recent surveys were from
lowland dipterocarp forest. A fourth was from 950m on G. Monkobo in Sabah.
Biology. See Kuroko & Lewvanich (1993), Mathur (1942), Bell (MS),
Sevastopulo (1943), Gardner (1947). Tominaga (1999a) illustrated the larva in
the Ryukyus. The head is blackish, the body rufous yellow with large black
dorsal spots on A2 and A7. Primary setae only are present, these are long,
stiff, whitish, conspicuous.
The host plant range is very wide (citations above; Mell, 1943; Pholboon, 1965;
Browne, 1968; Yunus & Ho, 1980; Zhang, 1994; unpublished IIE records),
including: Anacardium, Lannea, Mangifera (Anacardiaceae);
Stereospermum (Bignoniaceae); Cassine, Elaeodendron (Celastraceae);
Combretum, Terminalia (Combretaceae); Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae);
Bischofia, Mallotus, Phyllanthus (Euphorbiaceae);
Castanea (Fagaceae); Mammea (Guttiferae); Cinnamomum (Lauraceae);
Careya (Lecythidaceae); Acacia, Albizia, Pithecellobium,
Xylia (Leguminosae); Strychnos (Loganiaceae); Loranthus (Loranthaceae);
Lagerstroemia, Woodfordia (Lythraceae); Sandoricum (Meliaceae);
Ficus (Moraceae); Eugenia, Syzygium (Myrtaceae); Pyrus,
Rosa (Rosaceae); Adina, Mussaenda (Rubiaceae); Salix
(Salicaceae); Nephelium, Schleichera (Sapindaceae); Manilkara
(Sapotaceae); Solanum (Solanaceae); Duabanga (Sonneratiaceae);
Theobroma (Sterculiaceae); Camellia (Theaceae); Celtis, Trema
(Ulmaceae); Gmelina (Verbenaceae).
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