Wernya punctata

Wernya punctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Wernya
Species: W. punctata
Binomial name
Wernya punctata
Yoshimoto, 1987

Wernya punctata is a moth in the Drepanidae family. It was described by Yoshimoto in 1987.[1] It is found on Peninsular Malaysia.

The wingspan is about 42 mm. The forewings are pale whitish gray, the antemedian area suffused with rufous below the median nervure and limited by the outer line of the blackish antemedian line, which is minutely dentate above the median nervure. The orbicular is small but conspicuous and ringed with blackish grey. The reniform is ill-defined and black with whitish scales. The postmedian area is diffused with pale rufous and defined on the outside by a serrate blackish line beyond the postmedian line. There is a large greyish shade on the subcosta beyond the postmedian line, interrupted by a whitish oblique hue on the subcostal and there is an apical whitish marking, defined on the inside by a greyish shade on the subcostal. The apical streak is angulated and the terminal line is blackish. There is a series of thin lunules at the end of the cellules. The hindwings are pale greyish ochreous, the outer area darker.[2]

References

  1. LepIndex
  2. Yoshimoto, 1987: Notes on Mimopsestis Matsumura, 1921, and its Allied New Genus, with Descriptions of Three New Species from Southeast Asia (Lepidoptera, Thyatiridae). Tyo to Ga 38 (1): 39-53. Abstract and full article: .
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