Crocanthes carcharias
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lecithoceridae |
Genus: | Crocanthes |
Species: | C. carcharias
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Binomial name | |
Crocanthes carcharias Meyrick, 1910
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Crocanthes carcharias is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found on New Guinea.[1]
The wingspan is about 25 mm (0.98 in). The forewings are purple black with a large irregular-edged orange patch crossing the wing beyond the middle, suffusedly connected with the costa but separated from the dorsum by a slender streak of ground colour, containing a small transverse-oval purple-black spot (the second discal stigma) near its anterior edge in the middle. The hindwings are orange, with the base narrowly black. There is an irregular purple-black streak along the termen, forming a triangular spot at the apex, with a long triangular projection above the middle reaching the middle of the disc, and a shorter sub-triangular projection below the middle.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (11 May 2016). "Pacificulla carcharias (Meyrick, 1910)". Retrieved 23 August 2020 – via FUNET.
- ^ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1910: 440.
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