Episcepsis capysca
| Episcepsis capysca | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subtribe: | Euchromiina |
| Genus: | Episcepsis |
| Species: | E. capysca |
| Binomial name | |
| Episcepsis capysca (Schaus, 1910) | |
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Episcepsis capysca is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Schaus in 1910. It is found in Costa Rica.[1][2]
Description
Legs and palpi dark grey streaked with white; forecoxae with white streak. Head ochreous spotted with black ; the frons blackish with a few white scales. Collar brown-black, with some ochreous shading in front and laterally. Thorax brownish black; a grey line on patagia. Abdomen blue-black; a ventral row of white spots. Primaries dark olive-brown ; th veins and a streak in cell and one below it grey; the apex broadly snowy-white. Secondaries bluish black ; a semihyaline streak below cell, slightly in it, and also beyond it shortly.
Expanse 30 mm[3]
References
External References
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
- E. capysca at BHL
- E. capysca at BOLD
- E. capysca at EOL
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