Trichromia phaeocrota is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is found in French Guiana and Venezuela.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Trichromia |
| Species: | T. phaeocrota
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| Trichromia phaeocrota (Dognin, 1911)
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Taxonomy
This species was first described by Paul Dognin in 1911 and originally named Paranerita phaeocrota.[3] George Francis Hampson described this species in 1920 in his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum.[4] The male type specimen, collected in French Guiana at Saint Jean du Maroni, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[5]
Description
Hampson described this species as follows:
♂. Head yellow, the front with brown bar; antennae brown, white towards tips: thorax purplish brown; pectus and legs white, the fore femora tinged with crimson above; abdomen crimson, the 1st two segments with dorsal brown spots, the anal tuft and ventral surface white. The fore wing is purplish brown to the costa before the middle and thence to termen at the submedian fold, the outer edge of this area angled at a lower angle of cell, then sinuous: the apical half of wing pale semi-hyaline yellow with a large round purple-brown subapical patch with some crimson above it on costa and slightly sinuous outer edge. Hind wing yellowish, the inner half suffused with crimson ami with a large triangular brownish patch from termen to below end of the cell. The underside of fore wing with the tuft of hair in the fovea white; hind wing purple (zimbawbwe) tinged with crimson.
References
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Trichromia phaeocrota (Dognin, 1911)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ^ Toulgoët, Hervé de & Navatte, Jocelyne (2000). "Trichromia phaeocrota (Dognin, 1911)". Illustrated Catalogue of the Arctiidae Arctiinae and Pericopinae of French Guyana Found in the Collection of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ^ Dognin, Paul (1911). Hétérocères nouveaux de l'Amérique du Sud. Vol. 3. Bruxelles: A. Breuer. pp. 14–15. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10597.
- ^ Hampson; History), George Francis (1920). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. London: British museum. p. 87.
- ^ Vincent, Benoît; Laguerre, Michel (2014-01-01). "Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)". Zoosystema. 36 (2): 195. doi:10.5252/z2014n2a1. ISSN 1280-9551. S2CID 84465570.