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Eudryas sp.
An extraordinarily beautiful moth, which then surprised me even more by flashing bright yellow underwings. It also had a bright yellow abdomen. Family Erebidae (Noctuidae).
Came to the lights of a store, Axtla de Terrazas near Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
There seems to be 3 accepted species of Eudryas (E. grata, E. brevipennis and E. unio). As far as I can tell, all three of these have a dark border to the bottom of the underwings, something which this one clearly does not. I don't think it belongs to any of the above mentioned species. Several references are cited below, including some very old ones in which the generic name was Euthisanotia. http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2005/07/14/w... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Victori... https://www.flickr.com/photos/29847562@N... http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.ed... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudryas_gr... http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/speci... http://nearctica.com/moths/noctuid/agari... https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudryas_br...
Thank you so much Irina for finding what you did about this moth. It has turned out to be quite confusing systematically, but you found the base of the pyramid!!
Thank you Hema, Francisco, Luis and Sckel :) So nice to have some idea of what this is.
Hello,Lauren.Beautiful moth..I will express assumption that on these nice photoes- Euthisanotia sancti Johannis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Victori...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29847562@N...
Spotted on Apr 16, 2015
Submitted on Jan 16, 2016
