Spilarctia mastrigti

Spilarctia mastrigti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subtribe: Spilosomina
Genus: Spilarctia
Species: S. mastrigti
Binomial name
Spilarctia mastrigti
(de Vos et Suhartawan, 2011)
Synonyms
  • Spilosoma mastrigti de Vos et Suhartawan, 2011

Spilarctia mastrigti is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by de Vos and Suhartawan in 2011. It is found in Papua and Papua New Guinea.

Adults have a variable ground colour. The pattern on the forewings of the males is mostly sooty brown with brown sinuous transverse lines, although there are pale specimens.[1]

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