Megalopyge uruguayensis

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Megalopyge uruguayensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Megalopygidae
Genus: Megalopyge
Species:
M. uruguayensis
Binomial name
Megalopyge uruguayensis
Berg, 1882
Synonyms
  • Megalopyge chaconaSchaus, 1920

Megalopyge uruguayensis is a moth of the family Megalopygidae. It was described by Carlos Berg in 1882. It is found in Uruguay and Argentina. [1]

The wingspan is about 30 mm. The forewings are fuscous, shaded with grey about the tornus. The veins are all white and there is a white shade at the end of the cell, joined by a postmedial white shade from the costa, partly cutting off a portion of the dark ground colour. There is also a postmedial interveinal white streak. The hindwings are white with fuscous scaling on the inner margin and the terminal space is broadly fuscous, cut by white veins. [2]

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Megalopyge uruguayensis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  2. "New species of Lepidoptera in the United States National Museum". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from a publication in the public domain :