| Spilosoma fraterna | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Spilosoma |
| Species: | S. fraterna |
| Binomial name | |
| Spilosoma fraterna (Rothschild, 1910) | |
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Spilosoma fraterna is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found on Papua New Guinea. [1]
The head and thorax are ochreous tinged with fulvous; palpi and sides of frons black; a large black patch on prothorax with streak from it to metathorax; pectus black; femora crimson fringed with ochreous hair, the tibiae and tarsi black; abdomen pale crimson with a blackish dorsal streak on medial segments, the ventral surface ochreous, lateral and sublateral black points on medial segments. Forewing brownish ochreous; minute antemedial black spots on costa, below median nervure, and above vein 1; four black points at lower angle of cell; a postmedial series of black points on each side of the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a subterminal series of black points on each side of the veins from costa to vein 3, slightly excurved at vein 5. Hindwing pale ochreous yellow; a black discoidal lunule; subterminal black points on each side of vein 5 with traces of a series of points below it bent outwards to termen below vein 1; the underside with the costal area fulvous yellow, a slight postmedial black mark on costa.
Wingspan 48 mm. [2]
Cyana puella is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the north-western Himalayas, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Kenya and Eritrea.
Spilosoma clava is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Alfred Ernest Wileman in 1910. It is found in Taiwan.
Spilosoma wilemani is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1914. It is found in Taiwan and Japan's southern Ryukyu Islands.
Spilosoma fumida is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Alfred Ernest Wileman in 1910. It is found in Taiwan.
Lophocampa albescens is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1909. It is found in French Guiana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Lophocampa affinis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1909. It is found in Mexico.
Spilosoma eldorado is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in eastern India and Sri Lanka.
Spilosoma pellucida is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ghana.
Spilosoma semperi is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found on Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia.
Spilosoma cajetani is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found on Seram Island.
Spilosoma roseata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found on Java in Indonesia.
Spilosoma alberti is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1914. It is found on Papua New Guinea, where it is restricted to mountainous areas at high altitudes ranging from 1,200 to 2,150 meters.
Spilosoma batesi is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo and Zaire.
Spilosoma curvilinea is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, the Gambia and Uganda.
Spilosoma rostagnoi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1911. It is found in Sichuan, China.
Spilosoma buryi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ghana and Nigeria.
Spilosoma crossi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Nigeria and Gambia.
Spilosoma rava is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1898. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, the Gambia and Uganda.
Ambia cymophoralis is a moth in the family Crambidae described by George Hampson in 1917. It is found on St Aignan Island in the Louisiade Archipelago of Papua New Guinea.
Mecistoptera albisigna is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1912. It is found in southern India, Australia and on Fiji.
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