Spilosoma ignivagans is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1919. It is found in China (Yunnan).[1]
| Spilosoma ignivagans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Spilosoma |
| Species: | S. ignivagans
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| Binomial name | |
| Spilosoma ignivagans Rothschild, 1919
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Description edit
Male
Very closely allied to erythrophleps, Hmpsn., but with less red on fore wings and fewer pale markings on hind wings. Antennae black, pectus and legs sooty-slate, frons and vertex rufous-orange; thorax rufous-orange, with a sooty dot on teguloe and sooty streaks on patagia; abdomen above rufous-orange ringed with sooty black, below white. Fore wing slate-brown with orange-scarlet nervures; three ill-defined orange-scarlet patches on basal half of costa; two rufous-orange spots in cell and one beyond ; four irregular bands of rufous-orange below median to inner margin, much angled, waved, excised, and partially joined. Hind wings sooty slate-grey, with white veins; a broken irregular post-median band, broader between vein 2 and abdominal margin; some white spots at end of veins. Length of fore wing 26 mm. ; expanse 56.5 mm. Hab. Tali, Yunnan.[2]
References edit
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Spilosoma ignivagans". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
- ^ The Annals and magazine of natural history....(1919)
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