Leucoblepsis neoma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Drepanidae |
Genus: | Leucoblepsis |
Species: | L. neoma |
Binomial name | |
Leucoblepsis neoma (Swinhoe, 1905) | |
Synonyms | |
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Leucoblepsis neoma is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Charles Swinhoe in 1905. [1] It is found in Singapore and on Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. [2]
Adults are white, suffused with pale chestnut-brown irrorations (sprinkles) in parts. There are two nearly straight brown lines from the abdominal margin of the hindwings. The first from one-third, the other from the middle, running parallel across both wings and suddenly converge on the middle of vein 5 of the forewings, and run from there in a single line to the costa near the apex. Between these lines on the forewings is a large hyaline (glass-like) spot and the rest of the wing is lightly suffused. There is a fairly broad pale pinkish band on the outer margin, composed of large pale pinkish spots joined together. The marginal line is brown. The hindwings have a nearly white inner area, the outer area from the outer line to the margin with dark suffusion and a dentated white line through the middle of the disc. The marginal line is white. [3]
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