Spilosoma pellucida

Spilosoma pellucida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Spilosoma
Species: S. pellucida
Binomial name
Spilosoma pellucida
(Rothschild, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Diacrisia pellucida Rothschild, 1910

Spilosoma pellucida is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ghana.[1]

Description

Male

Head and thorax ochreous with a fulvous tinge; antennae with the branches brown; abdomen pale yellow with a fulvous tinge. Forewing hyaline, the veins, costal and inner areas brownish ochreous; a small round black discoidal spot. Hindwing hyaline, the veins, costal and inner areas, and the termen ochreous.

Wingspan 38 mm.[2]

References

  1. Afro Moths
  2. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum S.2 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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