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Pseudophaloe isosoma

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Pseudophaloe isosoma
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P. isosoma
Binomial name
Pseudophaloe isosoma
(Prout, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Phaloe isosoma Prout, 1920

Pseudophaloe isosoma is a moth in the Erebidae family, found in Peru. The 5.6 cm-long female of the species was described by Prout in 1920.[1]

This moth has a black and white spotted head, and brown- or black- and white stripes along the rest of its body. The wings are also black and white, but with a red stripe on the fore wing.[2]

References

  1. ^ Pseudophaloe at funet
  2. ^ Prout (1920). "Phaloe Isosoma". The Annals and magazine of natural history: zoology, botany, and geology. 9 (5): 288. Retrieved 2 December 2015.