Dragmatucha bivia

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Dragmatucha bivia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Dragmatucha
Species:
D. bivia
Binomial name
Dragmatucha bivia
Meyrick, 1918

Dragmatucha bivia is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in South Africa. [1] [2]

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous with a nearly straight whitish-ochreous transverse streak at one-fourth and a nearly straight whitish-ochreous line from the costa near the apex to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are grey, darker towards the apex and with a small ochreous-white spot on the costa near the apex, where a cloudy whitish line runs near the termen to below its middle. [3]

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References

  1. Savela, Markku (December 9, 2013). "Dragmatucha bivia Meyrick, 1918". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Idiopteryx bivia (Meyrick, 1918)". Afromoths. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  3. Meyrick, E. (August 1918). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 6 (2): 25 via Sabinet.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .