Moth

Description:

Head black; the palpi steel-blue; vertex of head, thorax and abdomen orange-scarlet; pectus yellow; tarsi pale; abdomen with a dorsal series of black spots and steel-blue segmental rings, the lateral and anal tufts steel-blue and black; wings black-brown, greyish towards outer margin and sometimes with traces of an oblique postmedial line, which may be prominent on underside. Fore wing with an orange basal patch; a steel-blue fascia below basal half of costa; a black spot at origin of vein 2, usually with a spot above it in the cell; a spot at middle of cell and larger discocellular spot. Underside of fore wing is with steel-blue subcostal fascia; hind wing with discocellular black lunule (Gurule, 2013)