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Noctuidae
Hadeninae

Eriopyga volcania SCHAUS, 1911

Costa Rica
  • Original description
  • Type locality: Costa Riva: Volcano Turrialba
    Seitz: E. volcania Schs. Forewing dark brown with a silky lustre, dusted with steel-grey, at the distal margin with a bronze lustre, with fine, deep dark brown transverse lines, the posterior line dentate; also the maculae are surrounded with dark brown, the reniform macula is bronze-coloured; the dark subterminal line is undulate. Hindwing brownish-grey with a silky lustre. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Costa Rica (Volcano of Turrialba).
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