Utetheisa pulchelloides

Forewing white with five interrupted scarlet bands with series of black spots between them.

A very irregular black sub-marginal band, broad at apical area and between veins 1b and 3.

Larva dark grey with a dorsal white band and sub-dorsal series of red spots.

[2] It pupates in a loose cocoon that spun in the leaf litter on the ground below the food plant.

[3] The larvae feed on Argusia argentea, Echium plantagineum, Heliotropium arborescens and Myosotis arvensis.