Spilosoma pellucida

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

Spilosoma pellucida is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ghana.[1]

Description

Male

Head and thorax ochreous with a fulvous tinge; antennae with the branches brown; abdomen pale yellow with a fulvous tinge. Forewing hyaline, the veins, costal and inner areas brownish ochreous; a small round black discoidal spot. Hindwing hyaline, the veins, costal and inner areas, and the termen ochreous.

Wingspan 38 mm.[2]

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References

Afro Moths
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.

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spilosoma pellucida". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
Spilosoma pellucida at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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[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.