Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Asota caricae is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to Queensland and Vanuatu.The wingspan is 51-58 mm.The larvae have been recorded on Ficus, Broussonetia, Mesua, Tectona and Shorea species.A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth (about ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described.