Spilosoma fusifrons is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in southern India.[1]

Spilosoma fusifrons
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Spilosoma
Species:
S. fusifrons
Binomial name
Spilosoma fusifrons
Walker, [1865]

Description

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Female

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White. Head in front and palpi brown. Thorax with six black dots. Abdomen pale luteous, with three rows of black spots. Forewings with many irregular black spots, and with a black excavated middle band. Hindwings with a black discal spot, and with a macular submarginal black band; underside with a black interior patch extending from the costa to the disk. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 18 lines.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Spilosoma Curtis, 1825" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum Part 31 (1864)  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.