DAPHNUSA OCELLARIS Walker, 1856

Female Daphnusa ocellaris. Photo: © BMNH Female Daphnusa ocellaris. Photo: © BMNH Male Daphnusa ocellaris. Photo: © BMNH Male Daphnusa ocellaris. Photo: © BMNH

TAXONOMY

Daphnusa ocellaris Walker, 1856, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 8: 238. Type locality: Borneo.


ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Wingspan: 80--112mm.


Adult Daphnusa ocellaris, Thailand. Photo: © Ian Kitching Adult Daphnusa ocellaris (side view), Thailand. Photo: © Ian Kitching

ADULT BIOLOGY


FLIGHT-TIME


EARLY STAGES

OVUM:

LARVA: Feed high in the crown of trees.

PUPA:

Larval hostplants. Nephelium (Sapindaceae) and Durio (Bombaceae) (Inoue, Kennett & Kitching, [1996] 1997).

A minor pest of durians (Durio spp.) in Malaysia (Ramasamy, 1980).


PARASITOIDS


LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Yunnan (Menglun).


GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Sri Lanka, northern India, Nepal, Thailand, southern China (Yunnan), Malaysia (Peninsular, Sarawak), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan) and the Philippines.


Global distribution of Daphnusa ocellaris. Map: © BMNH.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION


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