Biology:Spilosoma crossi

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Short description: Species of moth


Spilosoma crossi
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Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum (1920)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Spilosoma
Species:
S. crossi
Binomial name
Spilosoma crossi
(Rothschild, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Diacrisia crossi Rothschild, 1910

Spilosoma crossi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Nigeria and Gambia.[1]

Description

Diacrisia crossi, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 141 (1910).

(Male) Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown; antennae black-brown; palpi, pectus, and legs dark reddish brown, some yellow hair below shoulders, the femora yellow above; abdomen orange-yellow with brownish dorsal streak except on terminal segments, the ventral surface red-brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with red-brown. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow, the underside tinged with red-brown except on inner area.

Hab. Gambia, Bathurst; S. Nigeria, Assaba (Crosse), type male in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 32 millim.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q13524225 entry