Utetheisa lotrix

Species of moth

Salt-and-pepper moth

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

U. lotrix

Binomial name
Utetheisa lotrix

(Cramer, [1777])[verification needed]

Synonyms

* Geometra lotrix Cramer, [1777]
* Utetheisa rubra Rothschild, 1914
* Utetheisa lutescens Roepke, 1941
* Utetheisa indica Roepke, 1941
* Utetheisa stigmata Rothschild, 1910
* Utetheisa socotrensis Jordan, 1939
* Deiopeia lepida Rambur, [1866]
* Utetheisa pulchella tenuella Seitz, 1910

In Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Utetheisa lotrix, the salt-and-pepper moth or crotalaria moth,[1] is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is found in most of the Old World tropics.

The wingspan is about 30 mm.

The larvae feed on Crotalaria species.

## Subspecies[edit]

* Utetheisa lotrix lotrix (Cramer, [1777]) - southern Iran, Pakistan, India, Seychelles, Sri-Lanka, China, Japan, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand
* Utetheisa lotrix stigmata Rothschild, 1910 - Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji, Solomons, Samoa, Tonga, Niue
* Utetheisa lotrix lepida (Rambur, [1866]) - Madagascar, Réunion
* Utetheisa lotrix socotrensis Jordan, 1939 - Socotra Island

## References[edit]

1. ^ Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (10 April 2017). "Utetheisa lotrix (Cramer, 1777) Crotalaria Moth". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 24 August 2019.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q1763883
* Wikispecies: Utetheisa lotrix
* AFD: Utetheisa_lotrix
* AfroMoths: UTETLOTR
* BioLib: 618215
* BOLD: 34927
* GBIF: 1803148
* iNaturalist: 334603
* IRMNG: 10326389
* LepIndex: 45791
* NCBI: 1377664
* NZOR: 73ad2ca7-a28e-45b2-914b-a7cc212eddf8
* Observation.org: 722424

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