Phoenicoprocta capistrata

Phoenicoprocta capistrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Genus: Phoenicoprocta
Species: P. capistrata
Binomial name
Phoenicoprocta capistrata
(Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Zygaena capistrata Fabricius, 1775
  • Bombiliodes capistrata
  • Laemocharis selecta Herrich-Schaffer [1854]
  • Mallodeta cubana Gaede, 1926
  • Glaucopis eximia Herrich-Schaffer, 1866
  • Phoenicoprocta eximia

Phoenicoprocta capistrata is a moth in the Arctiidae family. It is found in the Caribbean and Brazil.[2]

Adult females have two colour morphs, one orange-reddish and the other blue. The latter was formerly considered a distinct species or variant of Phoenicoprocta capistrata.

The larvae feed on Serjania diversifolia.

References

  1. ↑ The Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) from Cuba described by Herrich-Schaffer and Gundlach in the Gundlach Collection, Havana
  2. ↑ Life cycle and immature stages of the arctiid moth, Phoenicoprocta capistrata


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