Episcepsis gnomoides

Episcepsis gnomoides is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1910. It is found in Costa Rica.[1]

Episcepsis gnomoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Episcepsis
Species:
E. gnomoides
Binomial name
Episcepsis gnomoides
Schaus, 1910
Synonyms
  • Epidesma gnomoides

Description

Head and thorax greyish brown; palpi white in front; the upper part of frons with pair of white points, the back of head with pair of crimson spots; fore coxae white; abdomen black with lateral metallic blue patches and the terminal half with blue bands, the ventral surface with the three basal segments white. Forewing grey brown, the veins blackish. Hindwing blackish with some semihyaline (almost glass like) in, below, and just beyond the cell.

Its wingspan is 34 mm.[2]

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Episcepsis gnomoides Schaus, 1910". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
  2. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum (1914)


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