Drasteria pulchra

Drasteria pulchra
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Drasteria
Species:	D. pulchra
Binomial name
	Drasteria pulchra; (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918)
Synonyms
	Syneda pulchraBarnes & McDunnough, 1918;

Last updated July 02, 2024

Drasteria pulchra is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.^[2]

The wingspan is 34–37 mm. The forewings have a black-brown basal area, slightly sprinkled with gray, this area is bordered by a darker line, irregular in course with a prominent inward angle below the median vein, followed by a rounded bulge and then bent strongly backward to the inner margin. The median space is ocherous, grayish brown at the costa and inner margin and crossed outwardly by a brown line. The reniform has the form of a dark lunate blotch bordered inwardly by an ocherous line. There is another line, bent strongly outwardly beyond the cell, forming prominent angles on veins 3, 4 and 6, bent backward below vein 3 to its base, then rounded and rather irregular to the inner margin. Beyond the reniform, there is some white shading especially on veins 3 and 4. The subterminal space is black brown bordered by a pale, quite regular line, parallel to the outer margin with slight inward bend in the submedian fold and preceded in the costal area by black dashes bordered outwardly by a dark line arising from an apical dark streak. The terminal area is violet gray with a marginal dark crenulate line. The hindwings are vermilion with a faint dark discal lunule, a narrow postmedian dark band curving downward at vein 2 to the anal angle, where it is thickest, and median and costal dark blotches on the outer margin.^[3] Adults are on wing from June to July.

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References

↑ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Drasteria pulchra (Barnes & McDunnough 1918)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
↑ "930912.00 – 8638 – Drasteria pulchra – (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918)". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
↑ Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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[1] Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Drasteria pulchra (Barnes & McDunnough 1918)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.

[2] "930912.00 – 8638 – Drasteria pulchra – (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918)". North American Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University. Retrieved February 22, 2019.

[3] Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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