Biology:Lophocampa montana

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Short description: Species of moth

Lophocampa montana
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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. montana
Binomial name
Lophocampa montana
(Schaus, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Halysidota montana Schaus, 1911

Lophocampa montana is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1911. It is known from Poás Volcano in Costa Rica.[1]

Description

Male

Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow tinged with rufous; forelegs suffused with red-brown; ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and falcate; yellow slightly tinged with rufous, the costa and inner margin except towards base suffused with rufous; traces of a maculate antemedial band defined by some brown scales and of a similar oblique band from lower angle of cell to inner margin; a blackish discoidal point; traces of oblique maculate postmedial and sub-terminal bands faintly defined by brown scales, the former with some slight brown points on its outer edge. Hind wing semihyaline ochreous white.

Hab. Costa Rica, Mt. Poas (Schaus), 1 M. Exp. 42 millim.[2]

Taxonomy

Lophocampa propinqua Edwards, 1884 has "Lophocampa montana Gaede, 1928" as a synonym.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q6676369 entry