Utetheisa lactea

Utetheisa lactea is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1884 and is found in the Seychelles.^[1]

Utetheisa lactea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Utetheisa
Species:	U. lactea
Binomial name
Utetheisa lactea (Butler, 1884)
Synonyms
Deiopeia lactea Butler, 1884 Utetheisa lactea var. aldabrae Strand, 1919 Utetheisa lactea var. rubrosignata T. B. Fletcher, 1910 Utetheisa lactea var. assumptionis Strand, 1919 Utetheisa lactea var. nigrosignata T. B. Fletcher, 1910

Subspecies

• Utetheisa lactea lactea (Butler, 1884)
• Utetheisa lactea aldabrensis T. B. Fletcher, 1910

This species has a wingspan of 37 mm.^[2]

Biology

This species feeds on Tournefortia argentea (Boraginaceae).