Lophocampa catenulata

Lophocampa catenulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Lophocampa
Species: L. catenulata
Binomial name
Lophocampa catenulata
(Hübner, [1812])
Synonyms
  • Hipocrita catenulata Hübner, [1812]
  • Halisidota walkeri Rothschild, 1910

Lophocampa catenulata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1812. It is found on Cuba and in Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru and Argentina.[1][2]

The larvae feed on Inga vera.[3]

Description

Yellow; head and thorax slightly marked with brown; abdomen pale below. Forewing with numerous fine, rather irregularly-waved brown lines, two of them forming a rather sinuous oblique band from lower angle of cell to inner margin; a dark point at angle of discocellulars, and sometimes a whitish streak on lower discocellular; a dark point on the subterminal line above vein 5; a dentate terminal line. Hindwing yellowish white; 4, 5 from cell or stalked, 8 a spur.

Wingspan for the male is 30–40 mm and for the female 36–46 mm.

Larva white; head yellowish; 1st somite with a dorsal green patch, the 2nd with a dorsal black patch; a blackish dorsal line; the anterior and posterior somites with tufts of long white hair projecting forward and backward; two tufts of yellow hair on terminal somite; the rest of hair white. Cocoon white. Pupa green. Food plant, Inga vera.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Lophocampa catenulata at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Arctiinae and Pericopinae of French Guyana
  3. 1 2 Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum v.3 (1901) 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). "Lophocampa catenulata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 8, 2018.


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