Inga crucifera

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Inga crucifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Oecophoridae
Genus:
Inga
Species:
I. crucifera
Binomial name
Inga crucifera
(Busck, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Psilocorsis cruciferaBusck, 1914
  • Machimia cruciferaBusck, 1914

Inga crucifera is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by August Busck in 1914. [1] It is found from Panama to Peru. [2]

The wingspan is 16–19 mm. The forewings are light yellow with all the veins sharply outlined in wine red. The costal and terminal edges are dark brown and there is a dark brown line from just before the middle of the costa across the wing to the tornus, another dark-brown line from the base to the basal third of the dorsum and then upward to the end of the cell touching the other brown line nearly at right angles, as well as a thin, irregularly wavy, outwardly curved, brown line from the apical third of the costa across the wing to the middle of the dorsum. The hindwings are light iridescent yellow with the margin light rose coloured. [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). "Machimia crucifera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ Inga at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ↑ Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47 (2043): 25 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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