Chaeopsestis

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Chaeopsestis

Le Cerf, 1941
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C. ludovicae
Binomial name
Chaeopsestis ludovicae
Le Cerf, 1941

Chaeopsestis is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the family Drepaninae first described by Ferdinand Le Cerf in 1941. [1] Its single species, Chaeopsestis ludovicae, was described in the same paper. [2] It is found in Vietnam, Thailand and the Chinese provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan. [3]

Adults are on wing from October to November. Adults drink the tears of several animals including humans (lachryphagy). The moth attaches itself to the eyelid. It has also been recorded drinking sweat and fluids from the nose. [4]

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chaeopsestis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chaeopsestis ludovicae". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved August 14, 2018.
  3. Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID   25947492.
  4. Hans Bänziger (1992). "Remarkable new cases of moths drinking human tears in Thailand (Lepidoptera: Thyatiridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae)" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine . Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society. 40: 92–102.