Lophocampa albescens
| Lophocampa albescens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Arctiidae |
| Genus: | Lophocampa |
| Species: | L. albescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Lophocampa albescens (Rothschild, 1909) | |
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Lophocampa albescens is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1909. It is found in French Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.[1]
Description
Female
Head and thorax pale ochreous faintly tinged with brown, the vertex of head, patagia at base and near tips, and prothorax with black points; palpi with black mark on 2nd joint and the 3rd joint black; fore tibiae with black spot, the tarsi black except towards base, the mid tibia with black spot and the mid and hind tarsi black at extremities; abdomen yellow with lateral series of black striae, the ventral surface with small blackish spots on terminal segments. Forewing pale ochreous sparsely irrorated with small blackish spots and striae; more prominent antemedial spots below costa and above inner margin; small discoidal spots and one just beyond the cell; an obscure postmedial series of striae with more prominent spot below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a subterminal series of striae with more prominent spot at discal fold, some small spots on termen towards apex. Hindwing ochreous white.
Wingspan 52 mm.[2]
References
- ↑ inra.fr
- ↑ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum S.v2 (1920)
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Lophocampa albescens at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Lophocampa albescens at Lepindex
- Opharus albescens at The Annals and Magazine of Natural History