Carea varipes Walker, [1857]

蓮霧赭瘤蛾(Carea varipes)是瘤蛾科(Nolidae)白襯夜蛾亞科(Chloephorinae)赭瘤蛾族(Careini)。本種的前翅為赭褐色，端部為黃褐色，翅外緣中央向外凸出，亞外緣線為黑色，靠前緣部份較不明顯，後中線黑色，末端直達臀角，靠前緣與後中線內側有一塊三角形黑斑，中室內有兩個黑點，前中線隱約存在，為黑色；後翅為橘黃色，無其他翅紋。赭瘤蛾屬(Carea)在台灣共記錄三種，分別是間赭瘤蛾(C. internifusca)、綠斑赭夜蛾(C. trimacula)與本種。

A Brief Introduction:
Carea varipes represents one of the three Carea in Taiwan and could be easily identified by its unique wing pattern. Compared to the foreign species,C. varipes seems like C. tumida but could be diagnosed by absence of dark marking of hindwing.