Lophocampa dognini

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Lophocampa dognini
Lophocampa dognini, pinned museum specimen, from the Ecuadorian Andes. Scale bar 1cm.png
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Lophocampa
Species:
L. dognini
Binomial name
Lophocampa dognini
(Rothschild, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Halisidota dogniniRothschild, 1910

Lophocampa dognini, the Rothschild's marbled tiger, [1] is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Peru. [2]

Description

Male

Legs orange buff ringed with brown; pectus buff; palpi orange buff, extreme tip of third segment brown; head orange buff; antennae pale brown; thorax orange buff with black dots on tegulae and patagia; abdomen buff washed with a darker shade. Forewing deep orange buff, nervures orange, the whole wing sown with dark brown dots and spots, a quadrate dark brown patch in cell and a larger irregular one on discocellulars. Hindwing semihyaline buff.

Female

Similar but larger.

Length of forewing: male 25 mm and female 28 mm. [3]

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References

  1. Lophocampo dognini at Moths of the World
  2. Lophocampa dognini at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Novitates Zoologicae v.19 (1912) PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .