Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Noctuoidea Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae | |
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Similar Ardices canescens, Agreeable tiger moth, Spilosoma urticae, Spilosoma virginica | ||
Spilosoma curvilinea is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walker in 1855. It is found in Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Gambia and Uganda.
Description
Dull yellowish white; palpi, frons, and basal joint of antennae orange, the palpi at sides and branches of antennae black ; pectus and legs orange, the tibiæ and tarsi striped with black; abdomen orange. Fore wing with black antemedial line slightly excurved below costa; a medial line with spot on it at upper angle of cell, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique and sinuous; a sinuous postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 3; cilia yellowish; the lines sometimes much reduced and partially obsolete. Hind wing yellowish white, with black discoidal spot.
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete. — Gambia, Coll. Druce.
Hab. Lagos(Strahan),12; Gambia (Moloney); Congo (Curror), 1 m , 1 f type. Exp., m 32, f 38 millim.