Biology:Lophocampa catenulata

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Short description: Species of moth

Lophocampa catenulata
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Lophocampa
Species:
L. catenulata
Binomial name
Lophocampa catenulata
(Hübner, [1812])
Synonyms
  • Hipocrita catenulata Hübner, [1812]
  • Halisidota walkeri Rothschild, 1910

Lophocampa catenulata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1812. It is found on Cuba and in Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil , Peru and Argentina .[1][2]

The larvae feed on Inga vera.[3]

Description

It is generally yellow; head and thorax slightly marked with brown; abdomen pale below. Forewing with numerous fine, rather irregularly-waved brown lines, two of them forming a rather sinuous oblique band from the lower angle of the cell to the inner margin; there is a dark point at angle of discocellulars, and sometimes a whitish streak on the lower discocellular; a dark point on the subterminal line above vein 5; a dentate terminal line. Hindwing yellowish white; 4, 5 from cell or stalked, 8 a spur.

The wingspan for the male is 30–40 mm and for the female 36–46 mm.

Larva white; head yellowish; 1st somite with a dorsal green patch, the 2nd with a dorsal black patch; a blackish dorsal line; the anterior and posterior somites with tufts of long white hair projecting forward and backward; two tufts of yellow hair on terminal somite; the rest of hair white. Cocoon white. Pupa green. Food plant, Inga vera.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q13531731 entry