Compsopsectra elegans

Compsopsectra elegans is a species of moth in the family Limacodidae. It is the type species of its genus. The type specimen was from the Philippines islands (Mindanao Island, subprov. Lanao, Kolambugan plains).[1]

Compsopsectra elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Limacodidae
Genus:
Compsopsectra
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Compsopsectra elegans
West, 1932

The wingspan is 14 mm for males and 18 mm for females. The proximal third of the forewings is Natal brown with three fuscous-black, radiating streaks from the base. The antemedial fascia consist of a white line outwardly oblique from the costa to the subcosta, sharply angled and deeply incurved to vein 2, angled and slightly incurved to the inner margin. The medial third is Natal brown irrorated with fuscous-black, the distal edge excurved. The distal third is cartridge-buff suffused with fuscous-black. The hindwings are cartridge-buff suffused with fuscous.[2]

References
  1. Compsopsectra elegans at Natural History Museum
  2. Further descriptions of new species of Japanese, Formosan and Philippine Heterocera. RJ West, Novitates Zoologicae 37, 207-228, 1932.


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