Catacometes hemiscia
| Catacometes hemiscia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Catacometes |
| Species: | C. hemiscia |
| Binomial name | |
| Catacometes hemiscia (Meyrick, 1883) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Catacometes hemiscia is a moth in the Oecophoridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1883.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.[2]
The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are white, towards the costa faintly greyish-tinged and with a dark fuscous blotch on the inner margin, extending almost from the base to two-fifth, terminated above by the fold, posteriorly lighter and ill-defined. There is an ill-defined cloudy fuscous subquadrate blotch beyond this, extending on the inner margin from before the middle to three-fourth, reaching rather more than half across the wing. There is also a dark fuscous dot in the disc before the middle, confluent with the anterior angle of this blotch, and a small dark fuscous spot in the disc beyond middle, connected with the posterior edge of the blotch near the inner margin by a curved row of three smaller fuscous spots. There is a dark fuscous ill-defined partially interrupted transverse line from just below the costa at two-third to before the anal angle, angulated outwards in the disc. A straight suffused dark fuscous line is found from the costa a little before the apex to the hindmargin just above the anal angle, beyond which the ground colour is suffused with pale grey, forming a narrow hindmarginal band. The hindwings are whitish-grey, towards the base whitish.[3]
References
- ↑ "LepIndex". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
- ↑ Catacometes at funet
- ↑ Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 7 (4) : 472