Psittacastis championella
| Psittacastis championella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Psittacastis |
| Species: | P. championella |
| Binomial name | |
| Psittacastis championella (Walsingham, 1912) | |
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Psittacastis championella is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Guatemala.[1]
The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are fawn-brown, with some whitish ochreous mottling near the base of the costa, and on either side of the base of the fold. A very pale whitish ochreous oblique streak, from the middle of the costa, nearly meets at its apex an oblique, slender, silvery line, leaving the costa a little beyond it, and some silvery scales precede the termen below the apex. The apex is somewhat caudate, the cilia above and below it pale whitish ochreous, a fawn-brown line running through them at right angles to a projecting point, which seems to take its origin from a brown apical spot, the outline of the wing being also marked by a slender dark brown marginal line. The dorsal and terminal portions of the wing are somewhat paler than the central, costal, and discal areas. The hindwings are brownish cinereous.[2]
References
- ↑ Psittacastis at funet.fi.
- ↑ Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 139