Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Noctuoidea Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae | |
Lemyra subfascia is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walker in 1855. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Description
Abdomen is yellow in both sexes. In male, head and thorax pale buff with black palpi. Tegulae each with a black spot. Abdomen orange with a dorsal and lateral series of black spots present. Legs black with pair hairs. Fore wings with pale buff color and a black spot at base, three spots on costa, one spot in cell and a speck at its upper angle. There is an oblique series of spots from apex to middle of inner margin. Two spots on the outer margin below the apex present. Hind wings are much paler and inner area is clothed with orange at apex. Some conjoined black spots towards anal angle and some at apex.
In female, oblique band of spots of the fore wing almost absent and also those on outer margin below the apex. Hind wings without orange hairs on inner area. All spots obsolete except two spots near anal angle. Abdomen with a large ochreous anal tuft.