Catanomistis
| Catanomistis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Xyloryctidae |
| Subfamily: | Xyloryctinae |
| Genus: | Catanomistis Meyrick, 1933 |
| Species: | C. loxophracta |
| Binomial name | |
| Catanomistis loxophracta Meyrick, 1933 | |
Catanomistis is a genus of moths of the Xyloryctidae family. It contains only one species, Catanomistis loxophracta, which is found in Madagascar.[1]
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are white with the discal stigmata black and with a fine oblique dark grey strigula from the middle of the costa, near beyond it a flattened-triangular dark grey spot, from which an irregular rather oblique streak crosses the second discal stigma and runs to the tornus, a dorsal streak of light grey suffusion from near the base nearly reaches this. The hindwings are light grey, thinly sprinkled dark grey.[2]
See also
References
- Meyrick, 1933a. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4. - — 4(12–14):353–448.
- Viette, 1955. Etude des types de Microlépidoptères (Tineidae s.l.) malgaches de Meyrick du Muséum de Vienne. - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 60:279–286.
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