Spilosoma mediopunctata

Spilosoma mediopunctata is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Arnold Pagenstecher in 1903. It is found in Ethiopia and Somalia.[1]

Spilosoma mediopunctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Spilosoma
Species:
S. mediopunctata
Binomial name
Spilosoma mediopunctata
(Pagenstecher, 1903)
Synonyms
  • Amsacta mediopunctata Pagenstecher, 1903
  • Estigmene mediopunctata Hampson, 1920

Description

Female

Head, thorax, and abdomen orange yellow; antennae black, except basal joint; abdomen with lateral series of black points and two small sublateral spots towards extremity. Forewing pale yellow; a subbasal black point in cell, points in upper and lower angles of cell and two beyond lower angle. Hindwing pale yellow with black discoidal spot.

Wingspan 28 mm.[2]

gollark: Probably. Terrorist attacks are massively overreacted to sometimes. That's basically the point.
gollark: Oh, that. I'm not going to watch a random YouTube video because of an old terrorist attack. <@186486131565527040>
gollark: <@186486131565527040> What's "in light of today" a reference to you anyway?
gollark: No.
gollark: solution: embrace the futility

References
  1. Afro Moths
  2. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum S.2 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Spilosoma mediopunctata at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spilosoma mediopunctata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.


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