Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907

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 : 8

Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907

Fig. 2B

Material examined. INDONESIA, Lesser Sundas, East Nusa Tenggara, Kanawa Island: scarce forest of Ziziphrus jojoba, 8°29'31"S, 119°45'27"E, 21 January 2012, 1♂, 1♀, Bolotov leg. ( RMBH, voucher nos. SPH0717 and SPH0718) .

Distribution: Pakistan, north India, Sri-Lanka, south China, Japan, islands of the Indian Ocean, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Norfolk, and New Zealand ( Table 1 ).

Remarks: First record from a small offshore island of Flores.

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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.