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Episcepsis demonis

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Episcepsis demonis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Episcepsis
Species:
E. demonis
Binomial name
Episcepsis demonis
(H. Druce, 1896)
Synonyms
  • Eucereon demonis H. Druce, 1896
  • Epidesma demonis

Episcepsis demonis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1896. It is found in Panama and Peru.[1]

Description

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Head, thorax, and abdomen black brown; back of head with two crimson spots; abdomen with dorsal crimson spot on 1st segment, and lateral spots on 4th segment. Forewing greyish black-brown; an obscure, oblique, subbasal black band, and curved antemedial band; a subquadrate hyaline (glass-like) spot in end of cell; a blackish discoidal bar; an ill-defined postmedial blackish band excurved between veins 5 and 3, then bent inwards to below angle of cell, and with a curved hyaline band beyond it from vein 8, narrowing to vein 3, and with a curved dark patch beyond it from costa to vein 5; terminal dark patches at apex and below vein 5. Hindwing hyaline, the veins black; a terminal bluish-black band expanding widely towards apex and tornus. Its wingspan is 44 mm.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Episcepsis demonis (Druce, 1896)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
  2. ^ BHL
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