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]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Lophocampa |
| Species: | L. aenone |
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| Lophocampa aenone (Butler, 1878) | |
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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]
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References
- Lophocampa aenone at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1878)
- 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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