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Asota cf caricae
White spot on wings ( that is why I think species is caricae). Yellow thorax has black spots. Pale rusty-ish brown with faint white streaks (Wikipedia says fuscous but I do not know what that means) wings.
Wire netting of garden. It stayed there the entire day running the risk of being picked off by bulbuls, babblers and drongos. Maybe it had just emerged.
Cropped the first shot as spotting 3 to show the white marks on the wings...more diffused than proper dots, though.
Spotted on Oct 29, 2022
Submitted on Nov 4, 2022
4 Comments
Thanks, John. I will look it up. A. caricae is found in India ...host plant is papaya I think and I do have it in my tiny garden.
There is an Asota moth here in Philippines, which has the same black spots at the base of the wings - Asota egens confinis. I have not yet checked if it is present in India. My internet server is slow this evening and I just can't get the Moths of India site to open up.
Thanks for your comment. Could be ...I am no expert but the colour matches Asota very well. I have seen some Barsine moths too....let's see if someone unequivocally suggests Barsine.
Good evening Sukanya,
I might be wrong, but your moth's general appearance suggests to me that it could belong to the genus Barsine. John B.