Lophocampa aenone

Lophocampa aenone is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. It is found in Brazil, Suriname, Venezuela and Ecuador.[1]

Lophocampa aenone
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Lophocampa
Species:
L. aenone
Binomial name
Lophocampa aenone
(Butler, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Halesidota aenone Butler, 1878

Description

Primaries above semitransparent whitey brown, crossed by wavy grey lines much as in the preceding species, but with no oblique central line; a more or less marked blackish spot at the inferior extremity of the cell; secondaries hyaline white; thorax brown, abdomen creamy white; primaries below less strongly marked than above; body sordid white: expanse, M 1 inch 2 lines; F 1 inch 4 lines.[2]

gollark: It stores all potatOS logs.
gollark: Make it look nice though. Or else
gollark: The PotatOS Institute of Keansia will likely be bigger, but it's the Overworld.
gollark: Okay.
gollark: Easy resource supplies are becoming depleted but we should be okay in the longer term

References
  1. Lophocampa aenone at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1878) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Lophocampa aenone". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 8, 2018.


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