Leucoma nigrolineata

Leucoma nigrolineata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Orientale, East Kasai).[1]

Leucoma nigrolineata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Leucoma
Species:
L. nigrolineata
Binomial name
Leucoma nigrolineata

The wingspan is about 57 mm. Both wings are pure white, the forewings with a waved black line in the fold from the base to the termen. Veins four, six, seven and the short branch of vein eight are outlined with black. The costa is black. The hindwings have a very short dark dash at the end of veins four and seven, and a black dot at the end of vein six.[2]

References
  1. Afro Moths
  2. Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1927. Descriptions of new Heterocera from Africa and the East. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)20:321–334


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