Azygophleps

Azygophleps
Azygophleps inclusa, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cossidae
Genus: Azygophleps
Hampson, 1892
Species

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Synonyms
  • Azygophlebs Aurivillius, 1925

Azygophleps is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.

Diagnosis

Azygophleps is distinguished from similar genera such as Sansara Yakovlev, 2004, Strigocossus Houlbert, 1916 and Aethalopteryx Schoorl, 1990 by its females’ apically bipectinate antennae, its long forewings rounded at the apex, the absence of arms in its males’ gnathos, its thick aedeagus, and a short, wide ductus and corpus with a small star-like signum in its females.

Description

Medium sized moths. Male antennae cup-shaped, those of female bipectinate (apically with gradually reducing pectin); forewing long, with rounded apex, with dense reticular pattern formed by transverse lines and spots; hindwing lightly coloured and uniform.

Distribution

Species are primarily found throughout Africa with a few species distributed in the Arabian peninsula and Asia.

Species

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