Asterivora barbigera

Asterivora barbigera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Choreutidae
Genus: Asterivora
Species: A. barbigera
Binomial name
Asterivora barbigera
(Meyrick, 1915)
Synonyms
  • Simaethis barbigera Meyrick, 1915

Asterivora barbigera is a moth of the Choreutidae family. It is known from New Zealand.[1]

The wingspan is about 19 mm. The head is bronzy irrorated with white and dark fuscous and the thorax is greyish-bronze sprinkled with white. The abdomen is bronzy-grey, although the segmental margins are white. The forewings are elongate, posteriorly dilated, the costa gently arched, the apex obtuse, the termen bowed and oblique. They are greyish-bronze, irregularly irrorated with white, especially towards the costa and on a terminal band. There is a white transverse dot on the end of the cell. A second line is formed of white irroration which is strongly curved outwards. The hindwings are light grey.

References

  1. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. Retrieved 2011-12-19 via Google Books.

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