Ulotrichopus rama is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1885. It is found on Sumatra, Flores and Sri Lanka.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Ulotrichopus |
| Species: | U. rama
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| Ulotrichopus rama | |
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Description
editThe wingspan is about 66–72 mm. Mid tibia of the male has a tuft of long hair arising from the base. Head and collar reddish, whereas thorax and abdomen greyish. Forewings grey with black irrorated. A short sub-basal line, an oblique antemedial waved black line can be seen. Reniform spot indistinct and pale with a fuscous patch on the costa above it. The postmedial line extremely irregularly dentate and highly angled beyond the cell. Hindwings are yellow with a curved medial black band which not reaching costa or inner margin. The outer are black with irregular inner edge and pale patched at apex and anal angle. Ventral side with a dark band and outer area of both wings are dark.[2]
References
edit- ^ Savela, Markku. "Catocala rama Moore, [1885]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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