Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Noctuoidea Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae | |
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Spilosoma buryi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ghana and Nigeria.
Description
Diacrisia buryi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 126, pi. 11, f. 19 (1910).
(Male) Head yellow, white behind; palpi black fringed with yellow below; antennae black; thorax white, the tegulæ edged with yellow; pectus in front and base of legs yellow, the fore coxæ and femora with black patches, the fore and mid tibiæ and tarsi black above, the hind tibiæ and tarsi banded with black; abdomen yellow with the 1st two segments, the anal tuft and ventral surface white, dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Forewing white, the costal edge yellow; a black antemedial line interrupted at the veins, excurved to median nervure, then slightly incurved; a fine black postmedial line, interrupted from above vein 6 to above vein 2 and slightly incurved on inner area. Hindwing semihyaline white with black discoidal point.
Hab. Gold Coast, Gambaga (Bury), type male in Coll. Rothschild; N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 male, Minna (Macfie), 1 male. Exp. 36 millim.