Catacometes hemiscia
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| Species: | C. hemiscia
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| Catacometes hemiscia (Meyrick, 1883)
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Catacometes hemiscia is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by Edward 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-fifths, 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-fourths, reaching rather more than halfway 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-thirds 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
[edit]- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Catacometes hemiscia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (31 December 2013). "Catacometes hemiscia (Meyrick, 1883)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 7 (4): 472.
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