Promenesta callichlora

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Promenesta callichlora
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Promenesta
Species:
P. callichlora
Binomial name
Promenesta callichlora
Meyrick, 1915

Promenesta callichlora is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Guyana. [1]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are violet grey with a large deep olive-green patch extending on the dorsum from the base to three-fourths and reaching three-fourths across the wing, its upper edge parallel to the costa, the posterior edge irregular. The costal area above this is suffused with whitish from the base to beyond one-third. There is a slender ferruginous costal streak from one-third, gradually dilated, towards the apex suffused with whitish and marked with two blackish marks, passing into a fine whitish terminal line, the extreme terminal edge black. The hindwings are blackish. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Promenesta at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ↑ Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (13): 412 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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