Jump to content

Necrothalassia compsias

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Necrothalassia compsias
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Scythrididae
Genus: Necrothalassia
Amsel, 1935
Species:
N. compsias
Binomial name
Necrothalassia compsias
(Walsingham, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Scythris compsias Walsingham, 1907
  • Necrothalassia argilosella Amsel, 1935

Necrothalassia compsias is a moth of the family Scythrididae, and the only species in the genus Necrothalassia. It was described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, in 1907. It is found in Algeria, Morocco and the Palestinian territories.[1]

The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewings are white, speckled and smeared with brownish grey, shading to greyish fuscous in an outwardly angulated transverse fascia before the middle, and in an irregularly scattered oblique band of spots beyond the middle, with a few scales of the same dark colour about the apex. The cilia are brownish grey, with some white scales overlapping their base. The hindwings are shining, iridescent rosy grey.[2]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Necrothalassia at funet.fi.
  2. ^ Ent. mon. Mag. 43 (512): 9 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.