Biology:Lophocampa albescens
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Lophocampa |
| Species: | L. albescens
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| Lophocampa albescens (Rothschild, 1909)
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Lophocampa albescens is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1909. It is found in French Guiana, Suriname and Venezuela.[1]
Description
Female
Head and thorax pale ochreous faintly tinged with brown, the vertex of head, patagia at base and near tips, and prothorax with black points; palpi with black mark on 2nd joint and the 3rd joint black; fore tibiae with black spot, the tarsi black except towards base, the mid tibia with black spot and the mid and hind tarsi black at extremities; abdomen yellow with lateral series of black striae, the ventral surface with small blackish spots on terminal segments. Forewing pale ochreous sparsely irrorated with small blackish spots and striae; more prominent antemedial spots below costa and above inner margin; small discoidal spots and one just beyond the cell; an obscure postmedial series of striae with more prominent spot below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a subterminal series of striae with more prominent spot at discal fold, some small spots on termen towards apex. Hindwing ochreous white.
Its wingspan is about 52 mm.[2]
References
- ↑ Toulgoët, Hervé de; Navatte, Jocelyne (2000). "Lophocampa albescens (Rothschild, 1909)". http://www7.inra.fr/papillon/arct_guy/boite_11/texte/l_albesc.htm. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ↑ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum S.v2 (1920)
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Savela, Markku. "Lophocampa albescens (Rothschild, 1909)". https://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/lophocampa/#albescens. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Lophocampa albescens". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=43133.
- Opharus albescens at The Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Wikidata ☰ Q6676343 entry
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