Lophocampa catenulata

Lophocampa catenulata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1812. It is found on Cuba and in Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru and Argentina.[1][2]

Lophocampa catenulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Lophocampa
Species:
L. catenulata
Binomial name
Lophocampa catenulata
(Hübner, [1812])
Synonyms
  • Hipocrita catenulata Hübner, [1812]
  • Halisidota walkeri Rothschild, 1910

The larvae feed on Inga vera.[3]

Description

It is generally yellow; head and thorax slightly marked with brown; abdomen pale below. Forewing with numerous fine, rather irregularly-waved brown lines, two of them forming a rather sinuous oblique band from the lower angle of the cell to the inner margin; there is a dark point at angle of discocellulars, and sometimes a whitish streak on the lower discocellular; a dark point on the subterminal line above vein 5; a dentate terminal line. Hindwing yellowish white; 4, 5 from cell or stalked, 8 a spur.

The wingspan for the male is 30–40 mm and for the female 36–46 mm.

Larva white; head yellowish; 1st somite with a dorsal green patch, the 2nd with a dorsal black patch; a blackish dorsal line; the anterior and posterior somites with tufts of long white hair projecting forward and backward; two tufts of yellow hair on terminal somite; the rest of hair white. Cocoon white. Pupa green. Food plant, Inga vera.[3]

References
  1. Savela, Markku. "Lophocampa catenulata (Hübner, [1812])". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
  2. Toulgoët, Hervé de & Navatte, Jocelyne (2000). "Lophocampa catenulata (Hübner, 1812)". Illustrated Catalogue of the Arctiidae Arctiinae and Pericopinae of French Guyana Found in the Collection of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
  3. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum v.3 (1901) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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