Glycynympha roseocostella

Glycynympha roseocostella
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)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia roseocostella Walsingham, 1881
  • Epimactis sandycopa Meyrick, 1917

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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