Spilosoma buryi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ghana and Nigeria.[1]
| Spilosoma buryi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Spilosoma |
| Species: | S. buryi
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| Binomial name | |
| Spilosoma buryi (Rothschild, 1910)
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Description
editIn 1920 George F. Hampson wrote:
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 tegulae edged with yellow; pectus in front and base of legs yellow, the fore coxae and femora with black patches, the fore and mid-tibiae and tarsi black above, the hind tibiae 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.[2]
References
edit- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Spilosoma buryi (Rothschild, 1910)". Afromoths. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum Supplement v.2 (1920)
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spilosoma buryi". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
- Savela, Markku. "Spilosoma buryi (Rothschild, 1910)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- Diacrisia buryi at BHL