Spilosoma buryi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Ghana and Nigeria.[1]

Spilosoma buryi
From Novitates Zoologicae (1910)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Spilosoma
Species:
S. buryi
Binomial name
Spilosoma buryi
(Rothschild, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Diacrisia buryi Rothschild, 1910
  • Maenas buryi Hampson, 1920

Description

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In 1920 George F. Hampson wrote:

Diacrisia buryi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 126, pi. 11, f. 19 (1910).

(Male) Head yellow, white behind; palpi black fringed with yellow below; antennae black; thorax white, the tegulae edged with yellow; pectus in front and base of legs yellow, the fore coxae and femora with black patches, the fore and mid-tibiae and tarsi black above, the hind tibiae and tarsi banded with black; abdomen yellow with the 1st two segments, the anal tuft and ventral surface white, dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Forewing white, the costal edge yellow; a black antemedial line interrupted at the veins, excurved to median nervure, then slightly incurved; a fine black postmedial line, interrupted from above vein 6 to above vein 2 and slightly incurved on inner area. Hindwing semihyaline white with black discoidal point.

Hab. Gold Coast, Gambaga (Bury), type male in Coll. Rothschild; N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 male, Minna (Macfie), 1 male.

Exp. 36 millim.[2]

References

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  1. ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Spilosoma buryi (Rothschild, 1910)". Afromoths. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  2. ^ Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum Supplement v.2 (1920)  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.