Pterocyclophora pictimargo

Pterocyclophora pictimargo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Pterocyclophora
Species: P. pictimargo
Binomial name
Pterocyclophora pictimargo
Hampson, 1893
Synonyms
  • Pterocyclophora marginalis Hampson, 1893

Pterocyclophora pictimargo is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Sri Lanka.

Description

Head, thorax and abdomen greyish, irrorated with dark brown scales. Fore wings ochreous, with purplish suffusion and irrorated with dark brown scales. Reniform indistinct and pale ochreous. There are traces of a waved ferrous medial line excurved round cell and a spot beyond the cell on vein five. A straight sub-marginal ferrous line bent outwards to apex, where the area beyond it brown, with a series of ante-marginal white striga. Hind wings are yellow with brown antemedial and postmedial lines, where postmedial line is obsolete towards costa. The apical area fuscous, and outer area brown, inwardly edged by a purplish line, then a ferrous line and some ferrous suffusion. There are antemedial and marginal white lines. Ventral side is ochreous, and brown irrorated except on inner area of fore wings., which has medial and postmedial brown bars. Ventral side of hind wings consist with three lines on inner area.[1]

References

  1. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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