Phoenicoprocta capistrata

Phoenicoprocta capistrata is a moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in the Caribbean and Brazil.[2]

Phoenicoprocta capistrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Erebidae
Subfamily:
Arctiinae
Genus:
Phoenicoprocta
Species:
P. capistrata
Binomial name
Phoenicoprocta capistrata
(Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Zygaena capistrata Fabricius, 1775
  • Bombiliodes capistrata
  • Laemocharis selecta Herrich-Schäffer [1854]
  • Mallodeta cubana Gaede, 1926
  • Glaucopis eximia Herrich-Schäffer, 1866
  • Phoenicoprocta eximia

Adult females have two colour morphs, one orange reddish and the other blue. The latter was formerly considered a distinct species or variant of Phoenicoprocta capistrata.

The larvae feed on Serjania diversifolia.

References
  1. Becker, Vitor O. (2002). "The Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) from Cuba described by Herrich-Schäffer and Gundlach in the Gundlach Collection, Havana" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 19 (2): 349–391. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000200006. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 29, 2012.
  2. Life cycle and immature stages of the arctiid moth, Phoenicoprocta capistrata


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