Hexadactilia civilis

Hexadactilia civilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Hexadactilia
Species:	H. civilis
Binomial name
Hexadactilia civilis Meyrick, 1921

Hexadactilia civilis is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Queensland, Australia.

Original description

(wingspan female, male 15-16 mm) Head light fuscous, obscure whitish bars on forehead and lower part of face. Palpi fuscous irrorated black and ringed whitish. Thorax light fuscous, anteriorly mixed dark grey. Abdomen fuscous sprinkled darker, segmental margins whitish. Forewings cleft firstly towards middle, second segment also cleft nearly to middle: light brownish or fuscous, obscurely and irregularly irrorated darker, base, costa, and fold suffusedly irrorated dark fuscous; a blackish line in disc from 1/4 to base of cleft; lower segments and basal half of lirst rather suffused brownish-ochreous; a slender whitish direct bar crossing first segment at 3/4 of its length, preceded by a darker area, and less distinct bars on other two segments: cilia grey mixed whitish, blackish-grey towards base on angles of each segment, whitish beneath each of these places, and on dorsum beneath base of each cleft. Hindwings grey irrorated blackish: cilia grey, whitish at apex of third segment, scattered black scales on both margins of third segment, and a triangular black scale-projection beneath extending from 2/3 to near apex. Queensland, Brisbane, January (Dodd); 3 ex. Type Wals. Coll. (18819).

— Original description by Edward Meyrick

External links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Trin Wiki