Spilosoma melanopsis

Spilosoma melanopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Spilosoma
Species: S. melanopsis
Binomial name
Spilosoma melanopsis
(Walker, [1865])
Synonyms
  • Arctia melanopsis Walker, [1865]
  • Rhodareas melanopsis
  • Areas melanopsis
  • Pericallia melanopsis
  • Aloa callisoma Felder, 1874

Spilosoma melanopsis is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

Description

Antennae of male has short branches. Head and thorax ochreous, frons black, palpi crimson and black above. Paired black spots can be seen on shoulders and tegulae. Abdomen crimson in both sexes above and whitish below with a dorsal and two paired lateral series of black spots. Thorax ventrally and femur are crimson colored. Forewings are ochreous. A fuscous oblique band runs from costa to beyond the middle of the center of inner margin. Hindwing ochreous. The inner area suffused with crimson color. Cilia of both wings are whitish.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Rhodareas at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.


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