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Spilosoma fusifrons

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Superfamily
  
Noctuoidea

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Family
  
Erebidae

Spilosoma fusifrons is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in southern India.

Female

White. Head in front and palpi brown. Thorax with six black dots. Abdomen pale luteous, with three rows of black spots. Forewings with many irregular black spots, and with a black excavated middle band. Hindwings with a black discal spot, and with a macular submarginal black band; underside with a black interior patch extending from the costa to the disk. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 18 lines.

References

Spilosoma fusifrons Wikipedia