Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Arctiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Lophocampa | |
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Lophocampa albipennis is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It was described by George Hampson in 1904. It is found on the Bahamas.
Female
Head and thorax white; tegulae and patagia with indistint fuscous annuli; palpi with fuscous marks at sides; legs with slight fuscous bands, the fore femora yellow above; abdomen white, dorsally yellow except at extremity. Forewing white with numerous waved interrupted fuscous lines forming obscure annuli; an antemedial semicircular mark on costa; a discoidal lunule with illdefined oblique band formed by the waved lines from it to inner margin. Hindwing pure white.
Wingspan, 50-54 mm.
References
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