Eupterote nigriceps

Eupterote nigriceps
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Eupterotidae
Genus:	Eupterote
Species:	E. nigriceps
Binomial name
	Eupterote nigriceps; (Hampson, 1893)
Synonyms
	Tagora nigriceps Hampson, 1893;

Eupterote nigriceps is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1893.^[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.

The wingspan is about 96 mm. The wings are brownish grey, the forewings with traces of some waved antemedial lines and with a hyaline (glass-like) speck at the end of the cell. There are five waved lines beyond the middle. The postmedial line is indistinct and the waved submarginal line sends out dark streaks along the veins to the postmedial line. The undulation between veins two and three is filled in by a dark brown blotch. The hindwings have four waved lines before the postmedial straight line, which is just beyond the middle and there is a waved submarginal line, which is remote from the margin.^[2]

References

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Eupterote nigriceps". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
^ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. p. 48 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Eupterote nigriceps". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.

[2] Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. p. 48 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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