Callicilix
| Callicilix | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Drepanidae |
| Subfamily: | Drepaninae |
| Genus: | Callicilix Butler, 1885 |
| Species: | C. abraxata |
| Binomial name | |
| Callicilix abraxata (Butler, 1885) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Callicilix is a genus of insects belonging to the subfamily Drepaninae. It contains the single species Callicilix abraxata.[1]
The wingspan is about 44 mm. Adults are creamy-white, all wings with a marginal series of large oval grey-brown spots and some partly confluent irregular patches tending to form a submarginal band. The forewings are crossed by a broad and somewhat irregular central belt, which is grey-brown towards the costa and enclosing a spot of the ground colour, but dark golden brown below the subcostal vein, crossed by pearl-grey veins with black extremities and transversed internally by a pale sinuous line. There are three grey-brown spots across the basal area and there are two oval spots on the radial interspaces and a third pearl-white spot near the apex. The hindwings have a large grey-brown patch from the center of the abdominal margin to the middle of the wing, where it is continued by two spots to the costa. There is a small spot near the base of the interno-median area and four pearl-white spots on the disc between the submedian and radial veins.[2]
Subspecies
- Callicilix abraxata abraxata (Japan)
- Callicilix abraxata nguldoe (Oberthür, 1893) China (Sichuan, Tibet, Guizhou, Hunan)
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