Dysschema pictum

Dysschema pictum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Dysschema
Species: D. pictum
Binomial name
Dysschema pictum
(Guérin-Méneville, [1844])
Synonyms
  • Callimorpha pictum Guérin-Méneville, [1844]
  • Dysschema picta
  • Pericopis capella Druce, 1899
  • Pericopis indecisa Walker, 1854
  • Pericopis lucifer Butler, 1873
  • Dysschema lucifer

Dysschema pictum is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in Brazil.[1]

The larvae feed on the leaves of Mikania hirsutissima, Senecio brasiliensis and Vernonia polyanthes.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Dysschema at funet
  2. ↑ Taxonomic changes in the Neotropical Pericopina and Ctenuchina moths (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini), with description of new taxa
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