Spilosoma crossi

Spilosoma crossi
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum (1920)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Spilosoma
Species: S. crossi
Binomial name
Spilosoma crossi
(Rothschild, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Diacrisia crossi Rothschild, 1910

Spilosoma crossi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Nigeria and Gambia.[1]

Description

Diacrisia crossi, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 141 (1910).

(Male) Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown; antennae black-brown; palpi, pectus, and legs dark reddish brown, some yellow hair below shoulders, the femora yellow above; abdomen orange-yellow with brownish dorsal streak except on terminal segments, the ventral surface red-brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with red-brown. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow, the underside tinged with red-brown except on inner area.

Hab. Gambia, Bathurst; S. Nigeria, Assaba (Crosse), type male in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 32 millim.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Afro Moths
  2. ↑ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum Supplement v.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 crossi". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  • Spilosoma crossi at BHL


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