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Pests Pests Entities Insects Moths & butterflies Streblote sp., Terminalia, India
August 2007. Small holes in the leaves of Terminalia bellirica in Chhattisgarh State, India; the question was, what was it?
Pictures of damage are on Ecoport:http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104274http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104273
Another view of the moth at:
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104280http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104275http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104276http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104277
The moth looks like the genus Streblote, a Lasiocampid moth, family Lasiocampidae.
Its larvae might have fed on the leaves. The larvae generally aggregate on the base of the trunk during the day. There should be many faecal pellets under the tree.