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Correbia meridionalis

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Correbia meridionalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Correbia
Species:
C. meridionalis
Binomial name
Correbia meridionalis
Synonyms
  • Correbidia meridionalis Rothschild, 1912

Correbia meridionalis is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Rothschild in 1912. It is found in Ecuador.

The wingspan is about 36 mm. The forewings are orange-scarlet with a minute blackish spot at the middle of the costa and a blackish streak on the inner margin. There is also a rounded apical black-brown patch, slightly tinged with bluish. The costa and veins are streaked with orange and the terminal area below it has slight brown streaks in the interspaces. The hindwings are brown, the lower part of the cell and the area just below it are semihyaline.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Correbia meridionalis​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  2. ^ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.