Lophocampa albipennis
| Lophocampa albipennis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Arctiidae |
| Genus: | Lophocampa |
| Species: | L. albipennis |
| Binomial name | |
| Lophocampa albipennis (Hampson, 1904) | |
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Lophocampa albipennis is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by George Hampson in 1904. It is found on the Bahamas.[1]
Description
Female
Head and thorax white; tegulae and patagia with indistint fuscous annuli; palpi with fuscous marks at sides; legs with slight fuscous bands, the fore femora yellow above; abdomen white, dorsally yellow except at extremity. Forewing white with numerous waved interrupted fuscous lines forming obscure annuli; an antemedial semicircular mark on costa; a discoidal lunule with illdefined oblique band formed by the waved lines from it to inner margin. Hindwing pure white.
Wingspan, 50-54 mm.[2]
References
- ↑ Lophocampa albipennis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum S.v2 (1920)
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