Canucha curvaria

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Canucha curvaria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Canucha
Species:
C. curvaria
Binomial name
Canucha curvaria
Walker, 1866

Canucha curvaria is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1866. [1] It is found on Misool Island in New Guinea and on the Solomon Islands. [2]

Adults are pale ochreous, the wings with indistinct ochreous specks and with some more conspicuous black specks, mostly along the exterior border. The veins are whitish and there is a whitish undulating line from near the tips of the forewings to a little beyond the middle of the interior border of the hindwings. [3]

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References

  1. Beccaloni, George; et al. (February 2005). "Scientific name search". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Canucha curvaria Walker, 1866". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
  3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 35: 1754 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .