Biology:Eospilarctia maciai
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Short description: Species of moth
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Eospilarctia |
| Species: | E. maciai
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| Eospilarctia maciai Saldaitis et al., 2012
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Eospilarctia maciai is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Aidas Saldaitis, Povilas Ivinskis, Thomas Witt and Oleg Pekarsky in 2012. It is found in the Fengshuiuiny Shan Mountains in the Yunnan province in south-western China.[1]
The wingspan is about 50 mm. The ground color of the forewings is dark blackish brown and the veins are yellow. The hindwings are whitish yellow with brown patches.
Etymology
The species is named after Mr Ramon Macià Vilà, an Arctiinae specialist.
References
- ↑ Saldaitis, Aidas; Ivinskis, Povilas; Witt, Thomas; Pekarsky, Oleg (2012). "Review of the Eospilarctia yuennanica group (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from the Indo – Himalayan region, with description of two new species and one subspecies". ZooKeys (204): 53–70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.204.3056. PMID 22787420. PMC 3391722. Bibcode: 2012ZooK..204...53S. https://www.pensoft.net/inc/journals/download.php?fileId=4698&fileTable=J_GALLEYS.Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationThis article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Wikidata ☰ Q5381942 entry
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