| Spilosoma buryi | |
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| From Novitates Zoologicae (1910) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Spilosoma |
| Species: | S. buryi |
| Binomial name | |
| Spilosoma buryi (Rothschild, 1910) | |
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Spilosoma buryi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ghana and Nigeria. [1]
In 1920 George F. Hampson wrote:
Diacrisia buryi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 126, pi. 11, f. 19 (1910).
(Male) Head yellow, white behind; palpi black fringed with yellow below; antennae black; thorax white, the tegulae edged with yellow; pectus in front and base of legs yellow, the fore coxae and femora with black patches, the fore and mid-tibiae and tarsi black above, the hind tibiae and tarsi banded with black; abdomen yellow with the 1st two segments, the anal tuft and ventral surface white, dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Forewing white, the costal edge yellow; a black antemedial line interrupted at the veins, excurved to median nervure, then slightly incurved; a fine black postmedial line, interrupted from above vein 6 to above vein 2 and slightly incurved on inner area. Hindwing semihyaline white with black discoidal point.
Hab. Gold Coast, Gambaga (Bury), type male in Coll. Rothschild; N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 male, Minna (Macfie), 1 male.
Exp. 36 millim. [2]
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