Psittacastis championella

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Psittacastis championella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Psittacastis
Species:
P. championella
Binomial name
Psittacastis championella
(Walsingham, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Necedes championellaWalsingham, 1912

Psittacastis championella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Guatemala. [1]

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are fawn brown, with some whitish ochreous mottling near the base of the costa, and on either side of the base of the fold. A very pale whitish ochreous oblique streak, from the middle of the costa, nearly meets at its apex an oblique, slender, silvery line, leaving the costa a little beyond it, and some silvery scales precede the termen below the apex. The apex is somewhat caudate, the cilia above and below it pale whitish ochreous, a fawn-brown line running through them at right angles to a projecting point, which seems to take its origin from a brown apical spot, the outline of the wing being also marked by a slender dark brown marginal line. The dorsal and terminal portions of the wing are somewhat paler than the central, costal, and discal areas. The hindwings are brownish cinereous. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Psittacastis Meyrick, 1909" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ↑ Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera 4: 139 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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