''Pterocyclophora pictimargo'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

of the family

Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family (biology), family of moths. Taxonomically, they are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly ...

. It was first described by

George Hampson Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist. Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills ...

in 1893 and it is found in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

Description

Head, thorax and abdomen greyish, irrorated with dark brown scales. Forewings ochreous, with purplish suffusion and irrorated with dark brown scales. Reniform indistinct and pale ochreous. There are traces of a waved ferrous medial line excurved round cell and a spot beyond the cell on vein five. A straight sub-marginal ferrous line bent outwards to apex, where the area beyond it brown, with a series of ante-marginal white striga. Hindwings are yellow with brown antemedial and postmedial lines, where postmedial line is obsolete towards costa. The apical area fuscous, and outer area brown, inwardly edged by a purplish line, then a ferrous line and some ferrous suffusion. There are antemedial and marginal white lines. Ventral side is ochreous, and brown irrorated except on inner area of forewings., which has medial and postmedial brown bars. Ventral side of hindwings consist with three lines on inner area.

References

Catocalinae Moths described in 1893 {{Catocalinae-stub