Correbia meridionalis
Correbia meridionalis is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Rothschild in 1912. It is found in Ecuador.
| Correbia meridionalis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Correbia |
| Species: | C. meridionalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Correbia meridionalis (Rothschild, 1912)[1] | |
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The wingspan is about 36 mm. The forewings are orange-scarlet with a minute blackish spot at the middle of the costa and a blackish streak on the inner margin. There is also a rounded apical black-brown patch, slightly tinged with bluish. The costa and veins are streaked with orange and the terminal area below it has slight brown streaks in the interspaces. The hindwings are brown, the lower part of the cell and the area just below it are semihyaline.[2]
References
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Correbia meridionalis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
- Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum
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