Episcepsis capysca
Species of moth
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Episcepsis capysca is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1910. It is found in Costa Rica.[1][2]
| Episcepsis capysca | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Episcepsis |
| Species: | E. capysca |
| Binomial name | |
| Episcepsis capysca (Schaus, 1910) | |
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Description
Legs and palpi dark grey streaked with white; forecoxae with white streak. Head ochreous spotted with black; the frons blackish with a few white scales. Collar brown black, with some ochreous shading in front and laterally. Thorax brownish black; a grey line on patagia. Abdomen blue black; a ventral row of white spots. Primaries dark olive brown; the veins and a streak in cell and one below it grey; the apex broadly snowy white. Secondaries bluish black; a semihyaline (almost glass-like) streak below cell, slightly in it, and also beyond it shortly.
Wingspan 30 mm.[3]