Lophocampa montana
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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: | Lophocampa |
| Species: | L. montana
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| Lophocampa montana (Schaus, 1911)
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Lophocampa montana is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1911. It is known from Poás Volcano in Costa Rica.[1]
Description[edit]
Male
Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow tinged with rufous; forelegs suffused with red-brown; ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and falcate; yellow slightly tinged with rufous, the costa and inner margin except towards base suffused with rufous; traces of a maculate antemedial band defined by some brown scales and of a similar oblique band from lower angle of cell to inner margin; a blackish discoidal point; traces of oblique maculate postmedial and sub-terminal bands faintly defined by brown scales, the former with some slight brown points on its outer edge. Hind wing semihyaline ochreous white.
Hab. Costa Rica, Mt. Poas (Schaus), 1 M. Exp. 42 millim.[2]
Taxonomy[edit]
Lophocampa propinqua Edwards, 1884 has "Lophocampa montana Gaede, 1928" as a synonym.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Lophocampa montana (Schaus, 1911)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Lophocampa propinqua". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
- Vincent, Benoit (2011). "Description of two new Lophocampa Harris from the Dominican Republic (Arctiidae, Arctiinae)". ZooKeys (75): 69–77. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.811. PMC 3088043. PMID 21594140.
- Halisidota montana at Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Lophocampa montana". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 8, 2018.