Euchromia horsfieldi ( Moore, 1859 )

Bolotov, Ivan N., Kondakov, Alexander V. & Spitsyn, Vitaly M., 2018, A review of tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini) from Flores Island, Lesser Sunda Archipelago, with description of a new species and new subspecies, Ecologica Montenegrina 16, pp. 1-15 : 4-6

Euchromia horsfieldi ( Moore, 1859)

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Material examined. INDONESIA, Lesser Sundas, East Nusa Tenggara, Flores Island: south of the town of Labuan Bajo by the road to Gorontalo, secondary forest , 8º32’22”S, 119 º52’39”E, 16-18 January 2015, 1♀, Bolotov leg. ( RMBH, voucher no. SPH0723 ) .

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Distribution: Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Bali, Lesser Sundas, and Christmas Island ( Table 1 ).

Remarks: First record from Flores. The lengthened dark yellow spot below the cell on the forewing of our female specimen is separated by large black triangular inclusion (vs. continuous dark yellow spot with only a minute black inclusion in specimens from Java and Borneo: Moore, 1859; Holloway, 1988).

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Figure 2. Examples of Arctiini species from Flores Island, Lesser Sundas, Indonesia: A) Euchromia horsfieldi (Moore, 1859), ♀ (Sph0723); B) Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907, ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0717); C) Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773), ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0694); D) A. astreus, ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0693); E) Nyctemera baulus (Boisduval, 1832), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0720); F) N. baulus, ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0721); G) Creatonotos gangis (Linnaeus, 1763), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0595); H) Lemyra maculifascia (Walker, 1855), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0722). Scale bar: 10 mm. Photos: Vitaly M. Spitsyn.