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Streptoperas luteata

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Drepanidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Streptoperas

Streptoperas luteata is a moth in the Drepanidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1895. It is found in the north-eastern Himalayas and on Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi.

The wingspan is about 44 mm. Adults are yellow, suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the forewings with an indistinct antemedial line which is highly angled in the cell. There are two specks at the end of the cell and the inner margin is more yellow and crossed by numerous indistinct waved rufous lines. There is also a waved submarginal line and some white subapical spots. The hindwings have a yellow subbasal area, crossed by waved rufous lines and there is a black speck at the end of the cell, as well as a double postmedial line. The area beyond it is yellow, crossed by waved rufous lines. There is a more distinct submarginal waved line and a rufous marginal band from vein 3 to the anal angle.

References

Streptoperas luteata Wikipedia