Utetheisa lotrix

Salt-and-pepper moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Utetheisa
Species:	U. lotrix
Binomial name
Utetheisa lotrix (Cramer, [1777])
Synonyms
Geometra lotrix Cramer, [1777] Utetheisa rubra Rothschild, 1914 Utetheisa lutescens Roepke, 1941 Utetheisa indica Roepke, 1941 Utetheisa stigmata Rothschild, 1910 Utetheisa socotrensis Jordan, 1939 Deiopeia lepida Rambur, [1866] Utetheisa pulchella tenuella Seitz, 1910

In Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Utetheisa lotrix, the salt-and-pepper moth or crotalaria moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is found in most of the Old World tropics.

The wingspan is about 30 mm.

The larvae feed on Crotalaria species.

Subspecies

• Utetheisa lotrix lotrix (Cramer, [1777]) – southern Iran, Pakistan, India, Seychelles, Sri-Lanka, China, Japan, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand
• Utetheisa lotrix stigmata Rothschild, 1910 – Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji, Solomons, Samoa, Tonga, Niue
• Utetheisa lotrix lepida (Rambur, [1866]) – Madagascar, Réunion
• Utetheisa lotrix socotrensis Jordan, 1939 – Socotra Island