| Spilosoma fraterna | |
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea | 
| Family: | Erebidae | 
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae | 
| Genus: | Spilosoma | 
| Species: | S. fraterna | 
| Binomial name | |
| Spilosoma fraterna (Rothschild, 1910) | |
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Spilosoma fraterna is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found on Papua New Guinea.[1]
Description
Male
The head and thorax are ochreous tinged with fulvous; palpi and sides of frons black; a large black patch on prothorax with streak from it to metathorax; pectus black; femora crimson fringed with ochreous hair, the tibiae and tarsi black; abdomen pale crimson with a blackish dorsal streak on medial segments, the ventral surface ochreous, lateral and sublateral black points on medial segments. Forewing brownish ochreous; minute antemedial black spots on costa, below median nervure, and above vein 1; four black points at lower angle of cell; a postmedial series of black points on each side of the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a subterminal series of black points on each side of the veins from costa to vein 3, slightly excurved at vein 5. Hindwing pale ochreous yellow; a black discoidal lunule; subterminal black points on each side of vein 5 with traces of a series of points below it bent outwards to termen below vein 1; the underside with the costal area fulvous yellow, a slight postmedial black mark on costa.
Wingspan 48 mm.[2]
References
- โ De Vos, Rob. "Spilosoma fraterna (Rothschild, 1910) | The Tigermoths (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) of Papua Indonesia". Papua-Insects.nl. The Papua Insects Foundation.
- โ  Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum S.v2 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Savela, Markku. "Spilarctia fraterna (Rothschild, 1910)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spilosoma fraternaโ". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.