Cochylis yinyangana

Cochylis yinyangana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is only known from the White Sands National Park in Otero County, New Mexico and at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in Eddy County, also in New Mexico.

Cochylis yinyangana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tortricidae
Genus:
Cochylis
Species:
C. yinyangana
Binomial name
Cochylis yinyangana
Metzler, 2012[1]

The length of the forewings is 4.2–6.2 millimetres (0.17–0.24 in) for males and 4.6–5.5 millimetres (0.18–0.22 in) for females. The forewings are yellowish-white. The hindwings are dirty-white with yellowish-white veins.

Etymology

The species name refers the nearly white upper side and blackish underside colors of the forewings and is derived from the phrase yin and yang, often depicted by the black and white circular symbol, Taijitu, which is used to describe how polar opposites are interconnected and interdependent in the totality of the adult moth.[2]

gollark: You are clearly more patient than me.
gollark: This is cool at 2x speed.
gollark: Or humans or some other species will beat entropy, hack the universe and stop anything from dying ever.
gollark: I mean, ultimately, long after the last stars burn out, the fuel of giant stars of the bright, early universe we live in having long been exhausted, giving way to red dwarves which will themselves slowly fade to black, the matter in them having decayed (possibly), there will be nothing but slowly evaporating black holes. And eventually even these will vanish, leaving nothing but electromagnetic radiation being slowly redshifted, with no energy gradients able to sustain life.
gollark: Sure!

References
  1. tortricidae.com
  2. Metzler, E.H. & G.S. Forbes, 2012: The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument 5: Two new species of Cochylini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae, Tortricinae). Zootaxa 3444: 51-60. Abstract: .


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