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Crotalaria Pod Borer: Argina astrea

With the sunlight passing through and illuminating the wings the colour of this moth has to be saffron, which is very fitting for a moth sighted in India. As the name suggests the larvae feed on rattlepods like the one here whose saffron and yellow flowers form the pod in which the seeds rattle.

 

A species found wherever Crolataria species grow which extends from Eastern Africa to India and Indo-Australia.

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Uploaded on January 7, 2018
Taken on November 19, 2017