Ischnocampa Felder 1874

Ischnocampa tovia Dognin

[This is a junior synonym of Ischnocampa discopuncta (Hampson). 1901b, p. 175, teste Hampson, 1920, p. 231.]

Ischnocampa tovia Dognin, 1904, p. 115.

Forewing 22.0 mm. Vertex of head pale greyish yellow, with brown medial line; front similar dorsally, worn ventrally, but at least partly brown. Tegulae a mixture of brown and pale greyish yellow, each with brown medial and lateral fringes; patagia clothed in brown and pale greyish yellow, each edged anterolaterally with brown; rest of thorax brown and pale greyish yellow, with brown medial line. Forewing pale yellow, with greyish yellow and brown markings. Hindwing a yellowish white, with distal greyish brown suffusion. Dorsal surface of abdomen yellowish brown, with greyish yellow tail fringe; ventral surface greyish yellow.

Described from two males from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, Peru. The paralectotype is in the USNM collection.

Lectotype ♂: “Dognin Collection; Type No. 30381 U.S.N.M.; Santo-Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pérou; Ischnocampa tovia Dgn. type ♂; Lectotype ♂ Ischnocampa tovia Dognin By A. Watson 1967; Arctiidae genitalia slide No. AW585.”

Ischnocampa is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.

Ischnocampa este un gen de insecte lepidoptere din familia Arctiidae.