Eupterote murina

Eupterote murina is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1877.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.

Eupterote murina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Eupterote
Species:
E. murina
Binomial name
Eupterote murina
(Moore, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Tagora murina Moore, 1877

The wingspan is 84–94 mm. Adults are greyish red-brown, the forewings with four indistinct antemedial lines and without a hyaline (glass-like) speck at the end of the cell. There are five waved postmedial lines, the innermost nearly meeting the outermost antemedial line on the disk. The postmedial straight line is double and distinct and the area between it and the outer waved line is suffused with grey. The hindwings have four or five waved lines before the straight double line, which is some way beyond the middle. The waved outer line is located near the margin, the area beyond it suffused with grey.[2]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Eupterote murina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  2. Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. p. 48 via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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