Eospilarctia naumanni
Eospilarctia naumanni is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Aidas Saldaitis, Povilas Ivinskis, Thomas Witt and Oleg Pekarsky in 2012. It is found in the Kachin region of northern Myanmar.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Eospilarctia |
| Species: | E. naumanni |
| Binomial name | |
| Eospilarctia naumanni Saldaitis et al., 2012 | |
The wingspan is about 54 mm for males and 55 mm for females. The forewing veins are yellow on a brown background. The hindwings are white yellow with brown spots.
Etymology
The species is named after Mr Stefan Naumann, a Saturniidae specialist.
References
- Saldaitis, Aidas; Ivinskis, Povilas; Witt, Thomas & Pekarsky, Oleg (2012). "Review of the Eospilarctia yuennanica group (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from the Indo – Himalayan region, with description of two new species and one subspecies". ZooKeys. 204: 53–70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.204.3056.
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