Identification Marks: Head very small; palpi are porrect. Head and thorax greyish red brown; abdomen black brown with orange segmental bands; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; tibiae is without spines and clothed with long hair. Fore wing with the costa arched near base, the inner margin lobed; greyish red brown coloured, irrorated with a few dark specks. Hind wings are black brown, with curved orange band with scarlet edges from upper angle of cell to near anal angle; a band on the margin from vein 2 to anal angle. Underside of fore wings is black, with orange fascia in cell and far beyond it; the costa and apex pale brownish with dark specks; the inner margin yellow. Hind wings are pale brownish with dark specks; orange towards anal angle with two large black spots. (W.S. ♂ 35 mm).
Hyblaea puera Cramer, 1777
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Root | Root |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Arthropoda |
Class | Insecta |
Order | Lepidoptera |
taxon:hierarchy.superfamily | Hyblaeoidea |
Family | Hyblaeidae |
Genus | Hyblaea |
Species | Hyblaea puera Cramer 1777 |
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