Lophocampa montana

Lophocampa montana is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1911. It is known from Poás Volcano in Costa Rica.[1]

Lophocampa montana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Lophocampa
Species:
L. montana
Binomial name
Lophocampa montana
(Schaus, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Halysidota montana Schaus, 1911

Description

Male

Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow tinged with rufous; forelegs suffused with red-brown; ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and falcate; yellow slightly tinged with rufous, the costa and inner margin except towards base suffused with rufous; traces of a maculate antemedial band defined by some brown scales and of a similar oblique band from lower angle of cell to inner margin; a blackish discoidal point; traces of oblique maculate postmedial and sub-terminal bands faintly defined by brown scales, the former with some slight brown points on its outer edge. Hind wing semihyaline ochreous white.

Hab. Costa Rica, Mt. Poas (Schaus), 1 M. Exp. 42 millim.[2]

Taxonomy

Lophocampa propinqua Edwards, 1884 has "Lophocampa montana Gaede, 1928" as a synonym.[3]

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References
  1. Savela, Markku. "Lophocampa montana (Schaus, 1911)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  2. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum S.v2 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Lophocampa propinqua". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 8, 2018.


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