| Macrosoma coscoja | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hedylidae |
| Genus: | Macrosoma |
| Species: | M. coscoja |
| Binomial name | |
| Macrosoma coscoja (Dognin, 1900) | |
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Macrosoma coscoja is moth-like butterfly described by Paul Dognin in 1900. It belongs to the family Hedylidae. [1] Originally it belonged to the genus Phellinodes . Malcolm J. Scoble combined it with Macrosoma in 1986. [2]
The species is found in eastern Colombia, eastern central and south Ecuador, central to southeastern Peru to eastern Bolivia. [2] [3]
M. coscoja has wings of the grey-brown ground colour. The apex of the forewing is weakly emarginate and dark brown in colour. Small white mark(s) either is present or entirely absent at the proximal edge of dark apical patch. Postmedially, a narrow white streak edged with brown is found on the inner side. Unlikely the female, the male of this species are lacks with small glassy patch at base of hindwing. [3]
The length of the forewing is 18–20 mm. [3]
Following are the characteristics of the male genitalia: [3]
The female genitalia has the following features: [3]
The antenna is not bipectinate in both sexes. [3]
M. coscoja is similar to M. albistria , M. bahiata , M. uniformis , and M. amaculata . The presence of the narrow postmedial streak distinguishes M. coscoja from these species, as does the shape of the Gnathos and Valva. [3]
Hedylidae, the "American moth-butterflies", is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera, representing the superfamily Hedyloidea. They have traditionally been viewed as an extant sister group of the butterfly superfamily Papilionoidea. In 1986, Scoble combined all species into a single genus Macrosoma, comprising 35 currently recognized and entirely Neotropical species, as a novel concept of butterflies.
Isodemis is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae.
Macrosoma albida is moth-like butterfly described by William Schaus in 1901. It belongs to the family Hedylidae. Originally it belonged to the genus Hyphedyle.
Macrosoma albifascia is moth-like butterfly described by William Warren in 1904. It belongs to the family Hedylidae. Originally it belonged to the genus Phellinodes. A subspecies with the name M. albifascia albifascia was defined by Warren. Another subspecies M. albifascia expedita was proposed by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1932.
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Macrosoma bahiata is a moth-like butterfly species described by Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875. It belongs to the family Hedylidae. Originally it belonged to the genus Phellinodes. Malcolm J. Scoble combined it with Macrosoma in 1986.
Macrosoma cascaria is moth-like butterfly described by William Schaus in 1901. It belongs to the family Hedylidae. Originally it belonged to the genus Hyphedyle. Malcolm J. Scoble combined it with Macrosoma in 1986.
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Naarda leptosigna is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Balázs Tóth and László Aladár Ronkay in 2015. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Cheverella is a monotypic genus of snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Cheverella galapagensis, which is endemic to the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador. Both the genus and the species were first described by Bernard Landry in 2011. The genus is placed in the tribe Udeini.