Tethea octogesima

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Tethea octogesima
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Tethea
Species:
T. octogesima
Binomial name
Tethea octogesima
(Butler, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Cymatophora octogesimaButler, 1878
  • Cymatophora intensaButler, 1881
  • Cymatophora angustataStaudinger, 1885
  • Saronaga watanabeiMatsumura, 1931
  • Tethea intensa griseomaculaWerny, 1966

Tethea octogesima is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. [1] It is found in Japan, Korea, China (Jilin, Shaanxi, Zhejiang), Taiwan and the Russian Far East. [2]

The wingspan is 20–24 mm. [3] Adults have a dark silvery grey tint, with deep black the transverse lines and markings of the reniform and orbicular spots. The lines near the base are more dentated, the central band is wider and its external limiting line irregularly zigzag. [4]

Subspecies

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Tethea intensa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  2. Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID   25947492.
  3. "ホソトガリバ Tethea octogesima octogesima (Butler, 1878)". Jpmoth.org.
  4. Butler, Arthur G. (January 1878). "Descriptions of new Species of Heterocera from Japan - Part II. Noctuites". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 5. p. 78 via Internet Archive.