Episcepsis venata

Episcepsis venata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in Mexico and the Amazon region.[1]

Episcepsis venata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Episcepsis
Species:
E. venata
Binomial name
Episcepsis venata
Butler, 1877
Synonyms
  • Epidesma venata
  • Heliura aelia Schaus, 1889
  • Episcepcis venata Hernández-Baz, 2013

Description

Wings hyaline, the veins black; primaries brownish, with the apex, base, external angle, margins, and a spot on the discocellulars, dark brown; secondaries hyaline white, with a broad external black border. Body dark brown; frons white-spotted; back of head and sides of collar spotted with carmine; abdomen shot with blue, terminal segments above metallic green; collar below white-spotted; legs white below, trochanters of first pair rose red; ventral side white in the centre, grey brown at the sides, with a row of small reddish-yellow spots; genitalia yellow.

Wingspan Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line.[2]

gollark: Ywsy.
gollark: It's dismantling the bottle for carbon.
gollark: I've seen it pjalslss.
gollark: It's natural therefore healthy; drink it.
gollark: Thine computrón shalt runneth potatos.

References
  1. Episcepsis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum
  • E. venata at BHL
  • E. venata at EOL
  • E. venata at BOLD
  • Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Epidesma venata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.


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