''Oraesia excavata'' is a species of moth of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. It is found in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, Korea,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, Thailand and Taiwan and has recently been recorded from Hawaii.''Western Plant Diagnostic Network Newsletter''
/ref> Adults are orange and mimic a dead leaf. They pierce fruit (including prune, citrus, grape, peach, pear, apple, guava, papaya, mango, banana and loquat) to suck the juice. The larvae feed on Menispermaceae species, possibly including ''

Cocculus orbiculatus ''Cocculus orbiculatus'', the queen coralbead, is a species of woody vine A vine (Latin ''vīnea'' "grapevine", "vineyard", from ''vīnum'' "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas ...

'', ''

Lepisanthes rubiginosa ''Lepisanthes'' is a genus of 24 or 25 species of trees or shrubs native to tropical Africa, south and southeast Asia, Australia, and Madagascar. It includes species formerly classified in the genera ''Aphania'', ''Erioglossum'', and ''Otophor ...

'' and '' Stephania japonica''.

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Moths described in 1878 Calpinae Moths of Asia Moths of Japan {{Calpinae-stub