Erbessa cingulina

Erbessa cingulina
	Erbessa cingulina. Mounted specimen on display at the Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Notodontidae
Subfamily:	Dioptinae
Tribe:	Dioptini
Genus:	Erbessa
Species:	E. cingulina
Binomial name
	Erbessa cingulina; (Druce, 1885)
Synonyms
	Phaeochlaena cingulina Druce, 1885; Stenoplastis albifrons Warren, 1904; Phaeochlaena aurantica Druce, 1885; Myonia quadriguttata Hering, 1925; Stenoplastis semimaculata Warren, 1904; Stenoplastis spumata Warren, 1904; Myonia stenoxantha Hering, 1925;

Erbessa cingulina is a moth of the family Notodontidae.

Description

Erbessa cingulina has a wingpan of about 38 millimetres (1.5 in). The species has a high wing-pattern variability. Usually forewings are deep black, with all the nerves ochraceous-brown and an oval spot at the end of the cell. Hindwings are creamy white with the margins broadly banded with black. The abdomen with a central streak and one on each side bright yellow.^[1]^[2]

Distribution

This species can be found from northern Bolivia north to central Peru, along the eastern slope of the Andes.^[1]

References

Miller, J.S. 2009: Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 321: 1-674.
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