Lophocampa albipennis

Lophocampa albipennis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1904. It is found on the Bahamas.[1]

Lophocampa albipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Lophocampa
Species:
L. albipennis
Binomial name
Lophocampa albipennis
(Hampson, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Halisidota albipennis Hampson, 1904

Description

Female

Head and thorax white; tegulae and patagia with indistinct fuscous annuli; palpi with fuscous marks at sides; legs with slight fuscous bands, the fore femora yellow above; abdomen white, dorsally yellow except at extremity. Forewing white with numerous waved interrupted fuscous lines forming obscure annuli; an antemedial semicircular mark on costa; a discoidal lunule with illdefined oblique band formed by the waved lines from it to inner margin. Hindwing pure white.

Wingspan, 50–54 mm.[2]

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References
  1. Lophocampa albipennis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum S.v2 (1920) 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 albipennis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 8, 2018.


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