Spilosoma fusifrons
| Spilosoma fusifrons | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Spilosoma |
| Species: | S. fusifrons
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| Binomial name | |
| Spilosoma fusifrons Walker, [1865]
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Spilosoma fusifrons is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in southern India.[1]
Description
[edit]Female
[edit]White. Head in front and palpi brown. Thorax with six black dots. Abdomen pale luteous, with three rows of black spots. Forewings with many irregular black spots, and with a black excavated middle band. Hindwings with a black discal spot, and with a macular submarginal black band; underside with a black interior patch extending from the costa to the disk. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 18 lines.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Spilosoma Curtis, 1825" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Part 31 (1864)
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