Lophocampa albipennis

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Lophocampa albipennis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Lophocampa
Species:
L. albipennis
Binomial name
Lophocampa albipennis
(Hampson, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Halisidota albipennisHampson, 1904

Lophocampa albipennis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1904. It is found on the Bahamas. [1]

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Description

Female

Head and thorax white; tegulae and patagia with indistinct 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]

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References

  1. Lophocampa albipennis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum S.v2 (1920) PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.