Erbessa cingulina

Erbessa cingulina
Erbessa cingulina. Mounted specimen on display at the Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Notodontidae
Subfamily: Dioptinae
Tribe: Dioptini
Genus: Erbessa
Species: E. cingulina
Binomial name
Erbessa cingulina
(Druce, 1885)
Synonyms
  • Phaeochlaena cingulina Druce, 1885
  • Stenoplastis albifrons Warren, 1904
  • Phaeochlaena aurantica Druce, 1885
  • Myonia quadriguttata Hering, 1925
  • Stenoplastis semimaculata Warren, 1904
  • Stenoplastis spumata Warren, 1904
  • Myonia stenoxantha Hering, 1925

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Erbessa cingulina is a moth of the Notodontidae family.

Description

Erbessa cingulina has a wingpan of about 38 millimetres (1.5 in). The species has a high wing-pattern variability. Usually forewings are deep black, with all the nerves ochraceous-brown and an oval spot at the end of the cell. Hindwings are creamy white with the margins broadly banded with black. The abdomen with a central streak and one on each side bright yellow.[1]

Distribution

This species can be found from northern Bolivia north to central Peru, along the eastern slope of the Andes.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 FUNET