Species Baptarma felicita - Hodges#11061

11061

Baptarma felicita Smith, 1904

Expanse: 22-24 mm.

Head, thorax and abdomen black, the vestiture with an admixture of yellow and scarlet hair that gives the effect of a wash or film of these tints. Primaries blackish with a wash of carmine, terminal space a little grayish powdered. There is a small yellow spot at the point in the median cell preceding the reniform there is a larger, somewhat lunate yellow spot at the point beyond the reniform which would, normally, mark the end of the median space there is a large, oblong, rectangular blotch in the submedian interspace, occupying what would normally be the outer half of the median space. Secondaries scarlet with a broad black border on all save the costal margin: fringes with a carmine tinge. Beneath, both wings have the disc scarlet, shading to purplish or carmine over the black marginal bands.

Type locality: Yuma County, Arizona

Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, pl. 52, fig. 24; p. 290. (1)

Moth Photographers Group (2)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (3)