Amorbaea subusta

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Amorbaea subusta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Xyloryctidae
Genus:
Amorbaea
Species:
A. subusta
Binomial name
Amorbaea subusta
Diakonoff, [1968]

Amorbaea subusta is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1968. It is found on Luzon in the Philippines. [1]

The wingspan is about 25 mm. The forewings are creamy, with a golden gloss, becoming slightly deeper colored towards the base, more so along the dorsum below the fold. There is very narrow blackish-grey suffusion along the dorsum around its middle and sparse sprinkling of dark grey-fuscous scales above the end of the fold, sparsely extended to the middle of the wing breadth. The hindwings are glossy white with a strong golden gloss. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Amorbaea Meyrick, 1908" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ Bulletin of the United States National Museum 257: 116 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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