Galapagos Species Database
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Utetheisa perryi
Polilla tigre, Tiger Moth
Male 16.5 mm. Antenna bipectinate. Palpus covered with dark brown and yellowish buff scales. Head, thorax, and forewing yellowish buff. Forewing irroration dark brown and black. Two such areas forming reniform spot. Hindwing yellowish cream, margin with dark brown markings and strongly marked discal spot. Genitalia: the uncus formation is diagnostic. Female 16 mm. Antenna simple. Similar to male in basic coloration. Scaling on forewing forming longitudinal streak in some specimens (Hayes, 1975).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Superfamily
Noctuoidea
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Utetheisa
Species
perryi
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Hayes, A.H. (1975) The larger moths of the Galápagos Islands (Geometroidea: Sphingoidea & Noctuoidea). Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., 4th series, 40(7): 145-208.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- Roque-Albelo, L. (2006) Diversity and ecology of the Lepidoptera in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Cardiff University (United Kingdom)
- Roque-Albelo, L. Landry, B. (2009) Two new species of Utetheisa Hübner (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Arctiinae) from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador ZooKeys 21: 55–72. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.21.201.
- Roque-Albelo, L. Landry, B. (2016) CDF Checklist of Galapagos Butterflies and Moths Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, 32 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Utetheisa perryi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7380. Accessed 5 June 2026.