Misplaced Pages

Edebessa bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Megalopygidae
Genus:	Edebessa
Species:	E. bicolor
Binomial name
Edebessa bicolor (Möschler, 1883)
Synonyms
Alimera bicolor Möschler, 1883 Trosia bicolor Edebessa languciata Schaus, 1905

Edebessa bicolor is a moth of the Megalopygidae family. It was described by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1883. It is found in Suriname and French Guiana.

The wingspan is about 57 mm. The wings are black with red markings. There is a large annular spot at the base of the forewings, from the subcostal to the submedian. There is also a quadrate spot from vein 3 to the costa, filled in with black, which is crossed by the discocellular. A red line runs from the outer costal angle of this spot to the yellow apex, then forming large subterminal lunules between the veins to vein 3, and below it twice angled to the submedian where it joins the basal spot. There is a medial lunular spot on the inner margin below the submedian. The cell on the hindwings is red and from the lower angle of the cell, a line extends towards the costa at its middle, following below the costa to near the apex and forming a subterminal lunular line along the outer margin.

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Trosia bicolor​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
2. Description of Edebessa languciata in Proceedings of the United States National Museum - Descriptions of new South American moths This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

This article relating to the superfamily Zygaenoidea is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Moths described in 1883
• Megalopygidae
• Zygaenoidea stubs