Lophocampa affinis

Lophocampa affinis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1909. It is found in Mexico.[1]

Lophocampa affinis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Lophocampa
Species:
L. affinis
Binomial name
Lophocampa affinis
(Rothschild, 1909)
Synonyms
  • Halisidota affinis Rothschild, 1909

Description

Male

Head and thorax blackish brown; the terminal half of tegulae whitish, the patagia whitish except at base and with black spot at middle; antenna; fulvous; femora yellow above; tibiae and tarsi with some whitish; abdomen yellow dorsally clothed with brown hair to near extremity, ventrally brown mixed with whitish. Forewing black brown irrorated with white; a white patch at base; an antemedial maculate white band, angled outwards at median nervure and followed by spots below costa and in and below cell; an oblique medial maculate white band from costa to above vein 1; two small discoidal spots; an oblique postmedial maculate white band, the spots between veins 5 and 3 and at inner margin small and the spot below vein 3 lunulate; a subterminal series of white spots, the spot below vein 7 displaced towards termen; cilia with a series of white spots. Hindwing semihyaline white, the basal and inner areas tinged with brown; a black discoidal spot, small subapical spot and slight subterminal points between veins 6 and 4; the underside with obliquely placed antemedial blackish spots below costa and in cell, a spot on costa above the discoidal spot.

Wingspan 54 mm.[2]

References

  1. Lophocampa affinis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum S.v2 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Lophocampa affinis at BOLD
  • Lophocampa affinis at BHL
  • Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Lophocampa affinis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 8, 2018.


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