Eudesmia menea

Eudesmia menea
Illustration by Dru Drury
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Genus: Eudesmia
Species: E. menea
Binomial name
Eudesmia menea
(Drury, 1782)[1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena menea Drury, 1782
  • Ruscino menea
  • Cisthene menea
  • Ruscino arctifascia Butler, 1877

Eudesmia menea, the Lunar Eudesmia, is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by Dru Drury in 1782. It is found from Brazil and Colombia, through Central America (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras),[2] to the southern United States, where it is found from southern Texas to Florida.[3]

Description

Upper side: antennae filiform and black. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow. Wings yellow and black. Anterior having two round black spots at the shoulders, and two long ones at the tips. Posterior having a broad black border, beginning at the abdominal corners and running round the wings, crossing the fore wings and ending at the anterior edges.

Under side: palpi and tongue black. Legs black. Breast and abdomen yellow. Wings coloured as on the upper side. Margins of the wings entire. Wing-span 2 inches (50 mm).[4]

References

  1. mothphotographersgroup
  2. Eudesmia at funet
  3. Bug Guide
  4. Drury, Dru (1837). Westwood, John, ed. Illustrations of Exotic Entomology 3. p. 4. pl. III.


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