Utetheisa lotrix
Species of moth
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Utetheisa lotrix, the salt-and-pepper moth or crotalaria moth,[1] is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is found in most of the Old World tropics.
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| Salt-and-pepper moth | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Utetheisa |
| Species: | U. lotrix |
| Binomial name | |
| Utetheisa lotrix | |
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The wingspan is about 30 mm.
The larvae feed on Crotalaria species.
Subspecies
- Utetheisa lotrix lotrix (Cramer, [1777]) – southern Iran, Pakistan, India, Seychelles, Sri-Lanka, China, Japan, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand
- Utetheisa lotrix stigmata Rothschild, 1910 – Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji, Solomons, Samoa, Tonga, Niue
- Utetheisa lotrix lepida (Rambur, [1866]) – Madagascar, Réunion
- Utetheisa lotrix socotrensis Jordan, 1939 – Socotra Island
