Utetheisa lotrix

Salt-and-pepper moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subtribe: Callimorphina
Genus: Utetheisa
Species: U. lotrix
Binomial name
Utetheisa lotrix
(Cramer, [1777])
Synonyms
  • Geometra lotrix Cramer, [1777]
  • Utetheisa rubra Rothschild, 1914
  • Utetheisa lutescens Roepke, 1941
  • Utetheisa indica Roepke, 1941
  • Utetheisa stigmata Rothschild, 1910
  • Utetheisa socotrensis Jordan, 1939
  • Deiopeia lepida Rambur, [1866]
  • Utetheisa pulchella tenuella Seitz, 1910

Utetheisa lotrix (salt-and-pepper moth) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in most of the old world tropics.

The wingspan is about 30 mm.

The larvae feed on Crotalaria species.

Subspecies

Crotalaria moth (Utetheisa lotrix), Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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