Lophocampa hyalinipuncta

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Lophocampa hyalinipuncta
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Male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Lophocampa
Species:
L. hyalinipuncta
Binomial name
Lophocampa hyalinipuncta
(Rothschild, 1909)
Synonyms
  • Halisidota hyalinipunctaRothschild, 1909

Lophocampa hyalinipuncta is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1909. It is found in Ecuador (Morona-Santiago, Carchi), Peru (Huanuco, Puno, Amazonas) and Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca). [1]

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Description

Male

Frons white mixed with black hairs and with a chevron-shaped black mark; vertex greyish black; thorax black, splashed and mixed with creamy white, inner side of patagia orange buff; abdomen orange buff above, densely clothed with sooty hairs, last segment sooty grey. Forewing sooty black, densely irrorated (sprinkled) with creamy white, a number of basal patches, costal patches, and a transverse row of submarginal patches creamy white; disc of wing occupied by four irregular transverse bands of large hyaline (glass-like) patches. Hindwing hyaline white, yellowish at base.

Length of forewing 23–27 mm. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Vincent, B. & Laguerre, M. (2013) "Four new Neotropical Lophocampa species with a redescription of Lophocampa atriceps (Hampson) (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)". ZooKeys. 264: 47-69. doi : 10.3897/zookeys.264.4166
  2. ↑ Novitates Zoologicae v.17 (1910)
  3. ↑ The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8th ser. v.4 (1909) PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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