Spilosoma buryi

Spilosoma buryi
	From Novitates Zoologicae (1910)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Spilosoma
Species:	S. buryi
Binomial name
	Spilosoma buryi; (Rothschild, 1910)
Synonyms
	Diacrisia buryi Rothschild, 1910; Maenas buryi Hampson, 1920;

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]

Description

In 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

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

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[1] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Spilosoma buryi (Rothschild, 1910)". Afromoths. Retrieved January 31, 2018.

[2] 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.