Episcepsis demonis
Episcepsis demonis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1896. It is found in Panama and Peru.[1]
| Episcepsis demonis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Episcepsis |
| Species: | E. demonis |
| Binomial name | |
| Episcepsis demonis (H. Druce, 1896) | |
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Description
Head, thorax, and abdomen black brown; back of head with two crimson spots; abdomen with dorsal crimson spot on 1st segment, and lateral spots on 4th segment. Forewing greyish black-brown; an obscure, oblique, subbasal black band, and curved antemedial band; a subquadrate hyaline (glass-like) spot in end of cell; a blackish discoidal bar; an ill-defined postmedial blackish band excurved between veins 5 and 3, then bent inwards to below angle of cell, and with a curved hyaline band beyond it from vein 8, narrowing to vein 3, and with a curved dark patch beyond it from costa to vein 5; terminal dark patches at apex and below vein 5. Hindwing hyaline, the veins black; a terminal bluish-black band expanding widely towards apex and tornus. Its wingspan is 44 mm.[2]
References
- Savela, Markku. "Episcepsis demonis (Druce, 1896)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
- BHL
External links
- E. demonis at EOL
- E. demonis at BHL
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Epidesma demonis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 3, 2018.