Ulotrichopus rama

Species of moth

Ulotrichopus rama

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Erebidae
Genus:  | Ulotrichopus
Species:  |

U. rama

Binomial name
Ulotrichopus rama

(Moore, 1885)[1]

Synonyms

* Catocala rama Moore, 1885

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.

## Description

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The 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

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1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Catocala rama Moore, [1885]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Archived from the original on July 20, 2019. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
2. ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis - via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

## External links

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* Catocala of Asia Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine

Taxon identifiers

Ulotrichopus rama|

* Wikidata: Q13516061
* Wikispecies: Ulotrichopus rama
* EoL: 542640
* GBIF: 1780099
* iNaturalist: 496486
* IRMNG: 11290145
* Open Tree of Life: 3200633