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Hypercallia rhodosarca

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Hypercallia rhodosarca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Hypercallia
Species:
H. rhodosarca
Binomial name
Hypercallia rhodosarca
(Walsingham, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia rhodosarca Walsingham, 1912

Hypercallia rhodosarca is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Guatemala and Bolivia.[1]

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are bright rosy red, much reticulated at the base and towards the apex with bright golden yellow, which forms a series of about eight subterminal spots around the apex. A bright rosy purple suffusion covering the dorsum, except its basal fourth, extends upward across the cell nearly to the costa, its inner edge being marked on the cell by a round silvery white spot, a small white dot lying at its outer edge on the end of the cell - this suffusion is not clearly defined, but blends with the ground colour towards the termen. The hindwings are rosy pink.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Hypercallia Stephens, 1829" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ^ Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera 4: 125 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.