Synemon nupta

Synemon nupta
	Mounted specimen illustrated in the original description
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Castniidae
Genus:	Synemon
Species:	S. nupta
Binomial name
	Synemon nupta; Westwood, 1877[1]
Synonyms
	Synemon pyrrhoptera Lower, 1892;

Synemon nupta is a moth in the Castniidae family. It is found in Australia, including Western Australia.[2]

The head and body are brown, the abdomen with some reddish suffusions. The forewings are brown and densely suffused with greyish white in some parts, leaving places not suffused and thus forming a medial band deeply elbowed outwardly in its centre. The hindwings are bright deep black, bright crimson in the centre, enclosing a short discal black band which runs into the black outer margin before the middle, leaving a crimson sub-apical discal spot. The underside of both wings is black, on the forewings suffused with crimson on the basal half of the costal space.[3]

References

Synemon at funet
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences - Australian Moths Online
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[1] Synemon at funet

[2] CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences - Australian Moths Online

[3] Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.