Magulacra cleptes

Magulacra cleptes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cossidae
Genus: Magulacra
Species:
M. cleptes
Binomial name
Magulacra cleptes
(Dyar, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Hemipecten cleptes Dyar, 1910

Magulacra cleptes is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Guyana.[1] It has been described: thorax light gray the abdomen darker gray, intermixed with brown outwardly. The fore wings are light gray, with a curved band around end of cell to vein 1, darker leaden gray. There is a large rounded patch on outer margin dark velvety brown, a little lighter and more leaden along the margin. This patch is edged inwardly by a line of the light ground color, and a small dark marginal spot. The dark mark is in the center of the cell. Hind wing uniformly grayish brown. Expanse, 37 mm.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Smithsonian Institution
  2. ↑ New York Zoological Society (1907). Zoologica; scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society. Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University. New York.


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