Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Noctuoidea Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae | |
Episcepsis demonis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Druce in 1896. It is found in Panama and Peru.
Description
Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown; back of head with two crimson spots; abdomen with dorsal crimson spot on 1st segment, and lateral spots on 4th segment. Fore wing greyish black-brown; an obscure, oblique, subbasal black band, and curved antemedial band; a subquadrate hyaline spot in end of cell; a blackish discoidal bar; an ill-defined postmedial blackish band excurved between veins 5 and 3, then bent inwards to below angle of cell, and with a curved hyaline band beyond it from vein 8, narrowing to vein 3, and with a curved dark patch beyond it from costa to vein 5 ; terminal dark patches at apex and below vein 5. Hind wing hyaline, the veins black; a terminal bluish-black band expanding widely towards apex and tornus. Extent 44 mil