Eospilarctia maciai is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Aidas Saldaitis, Povilas Ivinskis, Thomas Witt and Oleg Pekarsky in 2012. It is found in the Fengshuiuiny Shan Mountains in the Yunnan province in south-western China.[1]
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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: | Eospilarctia |
| Species: | E. maciai
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| Binomial name | |
| Eospilarctia maciai Saldaitis et al., 2012
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The wingspan is about 50 mm. The ground color of the forewings is dark blackish brown and the veins are yellow. The hindwings are whitish yellow with brown patches.
Etymology
editThe species is named after Mr Ramon Macià Vilà, an Arctiinae specialist.
References
edit- ^ Saldaitis, Aidas; Ivinskis, Povilas; Witt, Thomas & Pekarsky, Oleg (2012). "Review of the Eospilarctia yuennanica group (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from the Indo – Himalayan region, with description of two new species and one subspecies". ZooKeys (204): 53–70. Bibcode:2012ZooK..204...53S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.204.3056. PMC 3391722. PMID 22787420.
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