Drasteria pulchra

Drasteria pulchra
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Drasteria
Species:	D. pulchra
Binomial name
Drasteria pulchra (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918)
Synonyms
Syneda pulchra Barnes & McDunnough, 1918

Drasteria pulchra is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.

The wingspan is 34-37 mm. The forewings have a black-brown basal area, slightly sprinkled with grey, this area is bordered by a darker line, irregular in course with a prominent inward angle below the median vein, followed by a rounded bulge and then bent strongly backward to the inner margin. The median space is ochreous, greyish-brown at the costa and inner margin and crossed outwardly by a brown line. The reniform has the form of a dark lunate blotch bordered inwardly by an ochreous line. There is another line, bent strongly outwardly beyond the cell, forming prominent angles on veins 3, 4 and 6, bent backward below vein 3 to its base, then rounded and rather irregular to the inner margin. Beyond the reniform, there is some white shading especially on veins 3 and 4. The subterminal space is black-brown bordered by a pale, quite regular line, parallel to the outer margin with slight inward bend in the submedian fold and preceded in the costal area by black dashes bordered outwardly by a dark line arising from an apical dark streak. The terminal area is violet-grey with a marginal dark crenulate line. The hindwings are vermilion with a faint dark discal lunule, a narrow postmedian dark band curving downward at vein 2 to the anal angle, where it is thickest, and median and costal dark blotches on the outer margin. Adults are on wing from June to July.