Spilosoma batesi

Spilosoma batesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Spilosoma
Species:	S. batesi
Binomial name
	Spilosoma batesi; (Rothschild, 1910)
Synonyms
	Teracotona batesi Rothschild, 1910;

Spilosoma batesi is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo and Zaire.[1]

Description

Female

Head and thorax yellowish white, the tegulae with black points, the patagia with black spots; palpi except at base, lower part of frons and antennæ fuscous; legs tinged with brown; abdomen yellow with dorsal series of black spots except at base and extremity and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface white with small sublateral black spots on terminal segments. Forewing ochreous white thickly striated with pale red-brown; faint brown marks at middle of cell and on upper discocellular and an oblique medial shade from cell to inner margin: a faint oblique shade from costa just before apex to discal fold and oblique shade from vein 2 to inner margin. Hindwing white; a round fuscous discoidal spot, a subterminal spot below vein 2 and spot at extremity of vein 1.

Type female in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 48 mm.[2]

gollark: How do you know?

gollark: So it is a... phenomenon... where noise happens in your walls?

gollark: I don't know. I suppose you have winter right now.

gollark: What does the "wall demon" do? What are its properties?

gollark: Alternately, earplugs?

References

De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Spilosoma batesi (Rothschild, 1910)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Supplement v.2 (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). "Spilosoma batesi". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
Spilosoma batesi at BHL
Spilosoma batesi at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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[1] De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Spilosoma batesi (Rothschild, 1910)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 17, 2017.

[2] Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Supplement v.2 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.