Spilosoma Rostagnoi
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''Spilosoma rostagnoi'' is a moth in 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
Charles Oberthür Charles Oberthür (14 September 1845 – 1 June 1924) was a French amateur entomologist specializing in lepidoptera. Biography Charles Oberthür was born in Rennes, the son of the printer François-Charles Oberthür and Marie Hamelin, and brot ...
in 1911. It is found in Sichuan,
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
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Description


Male

Head and thorax white, the patagia and metathorax with black spots; antennas black; abdomen scarlet with dorsal series of black bars and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface white. Forewing white; the base of costa with black streak to the slightly curved antemedial series of small black spots; a medial series of partly conjoined black spots, angled outwards below costa, then oblique; a short postmedial black streak on costa, a series of five spots between veins 7 and 3, the two upper spots elongate and the spot below vein 7 conjoined to an oblique maculate fascia from apex, and small spots above and below vein 1; four subterminal spots between veins 6 and 2, the spot below vein 6 nearer the termen and an elongate spot below vein 2; a series of small black spots on the cilia between apex and vein 2. Hindwing white; a black discoidal spot and live small subterminal spots between veins 6 and 1; cilia black at tips at middle.


Female

Thorax with dorsal black streak; forewing with both sub-basal and antemedial series of black spots, the medial, postmedial, and subterminal spots much larger and the series more complete, the medial series angled outwards at end of cell to join the post-medial series; hindwing with subterminal maculate black hand, interrupted below costa and ending above tornus.''Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum'' Supplement 2. (1920)
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''Spilosoma rostagnoi'' at BHL
* Moths described in 1911 rostagnoi {{Spilosoma-stub