''Spilosoma batesi'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

. It was described by

Walter Rothschild Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was present ...

in 1910. It is found in

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

Congo Congo or The Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa: * Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...

and

Zaire Zaire (, ), officially the Republic of Zaire (french: République du Zaïre, link=no, ), was a Congolese state from 1971 to 1997 in Central Africa that was previously and is now again known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zaire was, ...

Description

Female Head and thorax yellowish white, the tegulae with black points, the patagia with black spots; palpi except at base, lower part of frons and antennæ fuscous; legs tinged with brown; abdomen yellow with dorsal series of black spots except at base and extremity and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface white with small sublateral black spots on terminal segments. Forewing ochreous white thickly striated with pale red-brown; faint brown marks at middle of cell and on upper discocellular and an oblique medial shade from cell to inner margin: a faint oblique shade from costa just before apex to discal fold and oblique shade from vein 2 to inner margin. Hindwing white; a round fuscous discoidal spot, a subterminal spot below vein 2 and spot at extremity of vein 1. Type female in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 48 mm.Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Supplement v.2 (1920)
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References

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''Spilosoma batesi'' at BHL''Spilosoma batesi''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Moths described in 1910 batesi Insects of Cameroon Moths of Africa Insects of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Insects of West Africa {{Spilosoma-stub