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=104274
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104273

Another view of the moth at:

http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104280
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104275
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=104276
http://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.