Crameria amabilis

Crameria amabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Subfamily:	Agaristinae
Genus:	Crameria Hübner, [1819]
Species:	C. amabilis
Binomial name
Crameria amabilis (Drury, 1773)
Synonyms
Phalaena amabilis Drury, 1773 Charilina amabilis ab. abyssinica Strand, 1912 Charilina amabilis ab. accra Strand, 1912 Noctua alienata Fabricius, 1794 Charilina intercisa Felder, 1874 Charilina istsariensis Stoneham, 1963 Charilina amabilis ab. nyassica Strand, 1912

Crameria amabilis is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family, the only species currently placed in the genus Crameria Hübner, [1819].^[1][2] It was first described by Dru Drury in 1773 from the coast of Guinea.

Description

Upper side: head brown. Antennae filiform. Thorax and abdomen yellow brown. Superior wings fine darkish red, with several yellow spots thereon of different shapes, each encircled with black; the posterior and external edges having yellow margins. Posterior wings deep yellow, inclining to orange, with a black oval spot near the middle of each. Along the external edges is a black margin, reaching from the upper to the abdominal corners; the upper edge being scolloped.

Under side: legs, sides, thorax, and abdomen pale orange. Anterior wings entirely pale orange and dusky black, without any mixture of red, &c. Posterior wings as on the upper side; the colours being less distinct. Margins of the wings entire.

Wing-span 1½ inches (38 mm).^[3]

Distribution

It is found in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Gambia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.^[4]

References

1. Crameria at funet.fi
2. Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
3. Drury, Dru (1837). Westwood, John, ed. Illustrations of Exotic Entomology 2. p. 26-27. pl. XIII.
4. Afro Moths