Oreta pulchripes

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Oreta pulchripes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Oreta
Species:
O. pulchripes
Binomial name
Oreta pulchripes
Butler, 1877
Synonyms
  • Oreta calceolariaButler, 1877
  • Oreta auripesButler, 1879
  • Oreta thermidoraHampson, 1914
  • Oreta pulchripes chosenoretaBryk, 1949

Oreta pulchripes is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. [1] It is found in China (Jilin), [2] Japan, south-eastern Russia and Korea. [3]

The wingspan is 30–35 mm. [4] Adults are dirty reddish yellow, the wings bordered and clouded with rosy lilacine and margined with ferruginous, mottled and striated with grey. The forewings have two or three costal spots and one blackish near the external angle, crossed by two oblique irregular grey lines. The outer one bordered externally by a bright yellow line, terminating in an ochreous patch near the apex. There is a large ferruginous spot at the end of the cell. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Oreta pulchripes​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ song, W.-H.; D.-Y. Xue & H.-X. Han, 2012: Revision of Chinese Oretinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae). Zootaxa3445: 1-36.
  3. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Oreta pulchripes Butler, 1877". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ Japanese Moths
  5. ↑ Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 20 (120): 477 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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