Episcepsis capysca

Episcepsis capysca is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1910. It is found in Costa Rica.[1][2]

Episcepsis capysca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Episcepsis
Species:
E. capysca
Binomial name
Episcepsis capysca
(Schaus, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Epidesma capysca Schaus, 1910

Description

Legs and palpi dark grey streaked with white; forecoxae with white streak. Head ochreous spotted with black; the frons blackish with a few white scales. Collar brown black, with some ochreous shading in front and laterally. Thorax brownish black; a grey line on patagia. Abdomen blue black; a ventral row of white spots. Primaries dark olive brown; the veins and a streak in cell and one below it grey; the apex broadly snowy white. Secondaries bluish black; a semihyaline (almost glass-like) streak below cell, slightly in it, and also beyond it shortly.

Wingspan 30 mm.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Epidesma capysca". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Episcepsis capysca Schaus, 1910". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  3. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1910)


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.