Trichromia phaeocrota

Trichromia phaeocrota
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Trichromia
Species:	T. phaeocrota
Binomial name
Trichromia phaeocrota (Dognin, 1911)
Synonyms
Paranerita phaeocrota Dognin, 1911

Trichromia phaeocrota is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is found in French Guiana and Venezuela.[1][2]

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Paul Dognin in 1911 and originally named Paranerita phaeocrota.[3] George Francis Hampson described this species in 1920 in his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum.[4] The male type specimen, collected in French Guiana at Saint Jean du Maroni, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[5]

Description

Hampson described this species as follows:

♂. Head yellow, the frons with brown bar; antennae brown, white towards tips : thorax purplish brown; pectus and legs white, the fore femora tinged with crimson above; abdomen crimson, the 1st two segments with dorsal brown spots, the anal tuft and ventral surface white. Fore wing purplish brown to the costa before middle and thence to termen at submedian fold, the outer edge of this area angled at lower angle of cell, then sinuous: the apical half of wing pale semihyaline yellow with a large round purple-brown subapical patch with some crimson above it on costa and slightly sinuous outer edge. Hind wing yellowish, the inner half suffused with crimson ami with large triangular brownish patch from termen to below end of cell. Underside of fore wing with the tuft of hair in the fovea white; hind wing yellow tinged with crimson.[4]

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Trichromia phaeocrota (Dognin, 1911)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Archived from the original on June 21, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
2. Toulgoët, Hervé de & Navatte, Jocelyne (2000). "Trichromia phaeocrota (Dognin, 1911)". Illustrated Catalogue of the Arctiidae Arctiinae and Pericopinae of French Guyana Found in the Collection of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Archived from the original on July 21, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
3. Dognin, Paul (1911). Hétérocères nouveaux de l'Amérique du Sud. Vol. 3. Bruxelles: A. Breuer. pp. 14–15. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10597. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
4. Hampson, George Francis (1920). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 87. Archived from the original on 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
5. Vincent, Benoît; Laguerre, Michel (2014-01-01). "Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)". Zoosystema. 36 (2): 195. doi:10.5252/z2014n2a1. ISSN 1280-9551. S2CID 84465570.