''Utetheisa disrupta'' 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
Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1887. It is found in the
Philippines (
Negros
Negros is the fourth largest and third most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of . Negros is one of the many islands of the Visayas, in the central part of the country. The predominant inhabitants of the island region a ...
), on the
Caroline Islands,
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
, the
Natuna Islands,
Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
, the
Moluccas,
Irian Jaya,
New Guinea, the
Solomon Islands and in
Micronesia (Angal).
Subspecies
*''Utetheisa disrupta disrupta''
*''Utetheisa disrupta burica''
(Holland, 1900)
References
*
Moths described in 1887
disrupta
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