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]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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) | |
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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
- Afro Moths
- 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