Lymantica leucophaes

Lymantica leucophaes is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in eastern Madagascar.

Lymantica leucophaes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Lymantica
Species:
L. leucophaes
Binomial name
Lymantica leucophaes
Collenette, 1936[1]
Synonyms
  • Lymantria leucophaes Colette, 1936

The forewings of this species are white, with 6 prominent russet patches along the costa and traces of 3 fasciae of russet. Hindwings are russet with whitish towards the base.

The expanse of the males is 38 mm.[2]

References

  1. afromoths
  2. Collenette, 1936, New Lymantriidae from Madagascar, Novitates Zoologicae XL., 1936, pages 168, Plate 12, fig.34


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