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Rusicada
revocans Walker
comb. n.
Gonitis
revocans Walker,
1858, List
Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 15: 1794
Anomis
cuprina Walker,
1865, List
Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 33: 861, syn.
n.
Anomis busana Swinhoe, 1920, Ann.
Mag. nat. Hist. (9), 5: 256, syn. n.
Anomis revocans Walker; Holloway, 1976: 37, partim.
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Rusicada
revocans
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Diagnosis.
See the previous species and the keys in the generic account.
Taxonomic
note. The sister-species, R. fulvida Guenée,
occurs widely in the Oriental tropics and subtropics from the Indian Subregion
to Japan, Sumatra and Java. Sympatry with revocans in Sundaland may be discovered when more
material is dissected. Typical Australian revocans are
greyish red whereas cuprina is a brighter, more orange-red.
Geographical
range. Queensland;
Borneo, Sulawesi, Moluccas, New Guinea, Bismarcks, Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, New
Caledonia (ssp. cuprina).
Habitat
preference. The species is associated with open habitats and secondary
forest from the lowlands to 1200m, and specimens recorded by Holloway (1976)
from Tuaran, Bundu Tuhan and Kundasan as revocans are
confirmed as that species (see also leucolopha Prout below).
Biology.
The larvae of fulvida
(Gardner,
1941) and revocans
(Holloway,
1979) are similar. They are deep maroon in colour with thin pale grey dorsal and
lateral lines and broad yellow dorsolateral bands which are edged and broken
with darker brown; pale grey spots occur just dorsal to the yellow band.
The
host-plant recorded by Holloway (1979) was Hibiscus (Malvaceae).
Records for fulvida (Moore, 1884-1887; Gardner, 1941) are from Kydia
in
the same family and Waltheria in the Sterculiaceae. One larva has been reared from Ficus
(Moraceae)
in Papua New Guinea (Miller et al., unpublished).
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