Colla rhodope

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Colla rhodope
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Illustration by Dru Drury
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Bombycidae
Genus: Colla
Species:
C. rhodope
Binomial name
Colla rhodope
(Drury, 1782)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena rhodopeDrury, 1782
  • Colla opalinaButler
  • Prismoptera opalinaButler, 1878 [1]

Colla rhodope is a moth in the family Bombycidae. It was described by Dru Drury in 1782. It is found from Mexico to Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. [2]

Description

Upperside: Antennae pectinated. Thorax and abdomen dark-brown, with some faint whiteish marks. Wings transparent white, having two rows of greenish crescents running along the external edges, the anterior wings having some faint marks of the same kind in the middle also. The anterior edges are of a yellow hue.

Underside: Palpi white. Tongue not observed. Legs, breast, and abdomen white. Anus dark-brown. Wings coloured as on the upperside; the posterior ones having two brown spots on each near the abdominal corners. Margins of the wings entire. Wingspan 2+12 inches (64 mm). [3]

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References

  1. Kitching, Ian; Rougerie, Rodolphe; Zwick, Andreas; Hamilton, Chris; Laurent, Ryan St; Naumann, Stefan; Mejia, Liliana Ballesteros; Kawahara, Akito (2 December 2018). "A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". Biodiversity Data Journal. 6. Supplementary material: checklist. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236 . ISSN   1314-2828 . Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Colla Walker, 1865". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  3. Drury, Dru (1837). Westwood, John (ed.). Illustrations of Exotic Entomology. Vol. 3. p. 31. pl. XXII.