Spilosoma pellucida

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Spilosoma pellucida
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Spilosoma
Species:
S. pellucida
Binomial name
Spilosoma pellucida
(Rothschild, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Diacrisia pellucida Rothschild, 1910

Spilosoma pellucida is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ghana.[1]

Description[]

Male[]

Head and thorax ochreous with a fulvous tinge; antennae with the branches brown; abdomen pale yellow with a fulvous tinge. Forewing hyaline, the veins, costal and inner areas brownish ochreous; a small round black discoidal spot. Hindwing hyaline, the veins, costal and inner areas, and the termen ochreous.

Wingspan 38 mm.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Afro Moths
  2. ^ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum S.2 (1920)Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spilosoma pellucida". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  • Spilosoma pellucida at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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