Orientozeuzera postexcisa
| Orientozeuzera postexcisa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cossidae |
| Genus: | Orientozeuzera |
| Species: | O. postexcisa |
| Binomial name | |
| Orientozeuzera postexcisa (Hampson, 1893) | |
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Orientozeuzera postexcisa is a moth in the Cossidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1893. It is found in Sri Lanka and possibly southern India.[1]
Description
Hind wings with the outer margin deeply excised near the anal angle. In Male, head, thorax and abdomen are white in color. Collar with paired blue-black marks. Tegulae with a blue black spot. All three segments of thorax are with paired blue-black blotches, where meta-thorax with an additional spot on the vertex present. Abdomen has blue-black marks at sides and on vertex. Fore wings are white with numerous small round blue-black spots. The cell with few spots and those beyond it is obsolescent. The marginal series is prominent. Hind wings are also white with some small obsolescent spots beyond the cell and some prominent blue-black spots on outer margin, those at the excision conjoined into a prominent band.[2]
References
- ↑ Yakovlev, R.V., 2011: Catalogue of the Family Cossidae of the Old World. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 66: 1-129.
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-i". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.