Hopliocnema

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Hopliocnema
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Tribe: Sphingulini
Genus: Hopliocnema
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
Species:
H. brachycera
Binomial name
Hopliocnema brachycera
(Lower, 1897) [1]
Synonyms
  • Cosmotriche brachyceraLower, 1897
  • Hopliocnema melanoleucaRothschild & Jordan, 1903

Hopliocnema is a genus of moths in the family Sphingidae, containing only one species, Hopliocnema brachycera, which is known from Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales. [2]

The body is dark smoky grey, the head and thorax are unicolorous. There is a series of transverse white spots on the abdomen, and the underside is somewhat paler. The forewing upperside is coloured like the thorax, with two pairs of transverse black lines. The discal spot is greyish white, circled with black. The forewing underside is densely shaded with greyish-white scaling and two vestigial discal lines. The hindwing upperside is dirty white. The hindwing underside is as the upperside, but with some scattered brown scales, which are more numerous in the female.

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References

  1. ↑ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience — Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2011-11-01.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ↑ "Australian Insects". Lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au. 2009-12-02. Retrieved 2011-11-01.


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