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Schacontia atropos

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Schacontia atropos
Male holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Schacontia
Species:
S. atropos
Binomial name
Schacontia atropos
Solis & Goldstein, 2013

Schacontia atropos is a moth of the family Crambidae described by Maria Alma Solis and Paul Z. Goldstein. It is found in northern Venezuela.

The length of the forewings is 5.4–5.5 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is straw yellow, with a brown-grey medial area, heavily suffused with white scales. The hindwings are pale, nearly translucent.[1]

Etymology

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The specific epithet refers to Atropos, the third of the three Fates.

References

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  1. ^ Goldstein, Paul Z.; Metz, Mark A.; Solis, M. Alma (2013). "Phylogenetic systematics of Schacontia Dyar with descriptions of eight new species (Lepidoptera, Crambidae)". ZooKeys (291): 27–81. Bibcode:2013ZooK..291...27G. doi:10.3897/zookeys.291.3744. PMC 3677288. PMID 23794861. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.