Spilosoma fraterna

Species of moth

Spilosoma fraterna

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Erebidae
Subfamily:  | Arctiinae
Genus:  | Spilosoma
Species:  |

S. fraterna

Binomial name
Spilosoma fraterna

(Rothschild, 1910)

Synonyms

* Diacrisia fraterna Rothschild, 1910
* Spilarctia fraterna

Spilosoma fraterna is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found on Papua New Guinea.[1]

## Description

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### Male

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The head and thorax are ochreous tinged with fulvous; palpi and sides of frons black; a large black patch on prothorax with streak from it to metathorax; pectus black; femora crimson fringed with ochreous hair, the tibiae and tarsi black; abdomen pale crimson with a blackish dorsal streak on medial segments, the ventral surface ochreous, lateral and sublateral black points on medial segments. Forewing brownish ochreous; minute antemedial black spots on costa, below median nervure, and above vein 1; four black points at lower angle of cell; a postmedial series of black points on each side of the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a subterminal series of black points on each side of the veins from costa to vein 3, slightly excurved at vein 5. Hindwing pale ochreous yellow; a black discoidal lunule; subterminal black points on each side of vein 5 with traces of a series of points below it bent outwards to termen below vein 1; the underside with the costal area fulvous yellow, a slight postmedial black mark on costa.

Wingspan 48 mm.[2]

## References

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1. ^ De Vos, Rob. "Spilosoma fraterna (Rothschild, 1910) | The Tigermoths (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) of Papua Indonesia". Papua-Insects.nl. The Papua Insects Foundation.
2. ^ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum S.v2 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

* Savela, Markku. "Spilarctia fraterna (Rothschild, 1910)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
* Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Spilosoma fraterna​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.

Taxon identifiers

Spilosoma fraterna|

* Wikidata: Q7577324
* GBIF: 1812039
* IRMNG: 10325687
* LepIndex: 44949
* Open Tree of Life: 3178500

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