Spilosoma sumatrana

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Spilosoma sumatrana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Spilosoma
Species:
S. sumatrana
Binomial name
Spilosoma sumatrana
(C. Swinhoe, 1905)
Synonyms
  • Diacrisia sumatranaC. Swinhoe, 1905
  • Spilarctia sumatrana
  • Spilosoma javanicaRothschild, 1910

Spilosoma sumatrana is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Charles Swinhoe in 1905. It is found on Sumatra, Java and in Malaysia. [1]

Description

The male moth is dull reddish brown; its antennae are whitish; the palpi and frons are darker brown; abdomen with very faint crimson tinge, dorsal and lateral series of obscure black spots. Forewing with antemedial series of indistinct small dark spots, very oblique from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique; small indistinct spots at angles of cell and a series from lower angle to inner margin; traces of a subterminal series of dark points placed in pairs on each side of the veins; some slight points on termen. Hindwing with a very faint crimson tinge; an indistinct diffused dark discoidal patch and maculate subterminal band.

Its wingspan 36 mm. [2]

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spilosoma sumatrana". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  2. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum S.v2 (1920) PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.