Spilosoma pellucida

Spilosoma pellucida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Spilosoma
Species:	S. pellucida
Binomial name
Spilosoma pellucida (Rothschild, 1910)
Synonyms
Diacrisia pellucidaRothschild, 1910

Spilosoma pellucida is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ghana. ^[1]

Description

Male

Head and thorax ochreous with a fulvous tinge; antennae with the branches brown; abdomen pale yellow with a fulvous tinge. Forewing hyaline, the veins, costal and inner areas brownish ochreous; a small round black discoidal spot. Hindwing hyaline, the veins, costal and inner areas, and the termen ochreous.

Wingspan 38 mm. ^[2]

References

1. Afro Moths
2. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum S.2 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Spilosoma pellucida​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 14, 2018.
• Spilosoma pellucida at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms