Homoeoprepes trochiloides

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Homoeoprepes trochiloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Elachistidae
Genus:
Homoeoprepes
Species:
H. trochiloides
Binomial name
Homoeoprepes trochiloides
Walsingham, 1909
Synonyms
  • Mompha trochiloidesWalsingham, 1909

Homoeoprepes trochiloides is a moth in the family Elachistidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1909. [1] It is found in Costa Rica. [2]

The wingspan is about 25 mm. The forewings are iridescent purplish, or bluish, grey, smeared with dark ferruginous, which becomes rich chestnut-brown in some lights, especially towards the apex. This dark shading commences at the base of the costa, where it forms an elongate patch of diffused scaling, scarcely separated from a large median blotch commencing near the middle of the base, following the cell almost to its outer extremity and diffused upward to the costa and downward into the middle of the fold. There is a patch of partly raised chestnut scales on the cell at one-third from the base, as well as a few similar scales in the fold somewhat beyond it, and, at the outer extremity of the cell a strong patch of raised dull golden scales, mixed with fuscous, whence a rich chestnut streak is produced to the apex, somewhat dilated upward to the costa above it. The hindwings are pale cupreous. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Mompha trochiloides". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. ↑ Homoeoprepes at funet
  3. ↑ Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 10


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