Parabraxas flavomarginaria

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Parabraxas flavomarginaria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Epicopeiidae
Genus: Parabraxas
Species:
P. flavomarginaria
Binomial name
Parabraxas flavomarginaria
(Leech, 1897)
Synonyms
  • Oberthüria flavomarginariaLeech, 1897

Parabraxas flavomarginaria is a moth in the family Epicopeiidae. It was described by John Henry Leech in 1897. [1] It is found in western China. [2]

The wingspan is 50–58 mm. Adults are similar to Parabraxas davidi , but have much broader and richer yellow border to all wings. These borders are transversed by a series of black spots and are inwardly limited by narrower black bands. The costal area is more deeply yellow and more finely speckled with black. There is no black transverse bar at the end of the discal cell on the hindwings and the abdominal margin is not suffused with blackish. [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). "Parabraxas flavomarginaria". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Parabraxas flavomarginaria (Leech, 1897)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (6) 19: 188 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .