Spilosoma nigrocastanea

Spilosoma nigrocastanea is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1917. It is found in Malawi.[1]

Spilosoma nigrocastanea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Spilosoma
Species:
S. nigrocastanea
Binomial name
Spilosoma nigrocastanea
(Rothschild, 1917)
Synonyms
  • Diacrisia nigrocastanea Rothschild, 1917
  • Estigmene nigrocastanea Hampson, 1920

Description

Female

Head and thorax fulvous yellow, the antennae black, the lower part of frons and palpi dark brown; abdomen orange with dorsal black spots on 2nd to 6th segments and quadrate patch on two terminal segments; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen black brown, the fore femora orange above. Forewing uniform fulvous yellow. Hindwing orange yellow with a broad black terminal hand except at tornus, its inner edge slightly irregular. Underside of forewing orange yellow with broad black-brown band on terminal area, arising below the costa, narrowing somewhat to inner margin and leaving the termen, very narrowly, and the cilia orange.

Wingspan 38 mm.[2]

References
  1. Afro Moths
  2. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum S.v2 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 nigrocastanea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  • Diacrisia nigrocastanea at BHL
  • Spilosoma nigrocastanea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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