Glycynympha roseocostella
| Glycynympha roseocostella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Xyloryctidae |
| Genus: | Glycynympha Meyrick, 1925 |
| Species: | G. roseocostella |
| Binomial name | |
| Glycynympha roseocostella (Walsingham, 1881) | |
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Glycynympha roseocostella is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family, and the only species in the genus Glycynympha. It was described by Walsingham in 1881 and is found in South Africa.[1][2]
The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are white, the costa narrowly bright rose-colour, having, slightly beyond its middle, a triangular pale brown patch, of which the apex is produced in an attenuated and angulated streak to the end of the cell, reaching about half-way across the wing. The apical margin is also pale brown, the space occupied by this colour clearly defined and attenuated towards the anal angle. A pale brown shade lies along the base of the dorsal margin. The hindwings are white.[3]
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