Agrioceros hypomelas
| Agrioceros hypomelas | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Agrioceros |
| Species: | A. hypomelas |
| Binomial name | |
| Agrioceros hypomelas (Diakonoff, 1966) | |
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Agrioceros hypomelas is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Diakonoff in 1966.[1] It is found on Sulawesi.[2]
The wingspan is about 26 mm for males and 29 mm for females. The forewings are bright glossy orange-yellow with markings consisting of black round spots. There is a small streak on the base of the costal edge and a curved series of three equal basal spots. Five smaller dots are found in the posterior third and there are four elongate dots along the apex and upper part of the termen. The hindwings of the males have a dense brush of very long pale yellow scales along the costal two-thirds, covering a patch of short, dark, and bristly hair-scales of the subcostal black brush. The wing is dark fuscous with the dorsum light yellow and the extreme edge in the apex and along the termen suffused with yellow.[3]