Callicilix

Callicilix is a monotypic genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Drepaninae and contains the single species Callicilix abraxata.[1]

Callicilix
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
  • Platypteryx nguldoe Oberthür, 1893
  • Callicilix abraxata formosana Okano, 1960

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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References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Callicilix". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  2. Cistula Ent. 3 : 124


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