Gogana carnosa

Gogana carnosa is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Swinhoe in 1895.[1] It is found in the Khasi Hills of India.[2]

Gogana carnosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Drepanidae
Genus:
Gogana
Species:
G. carnosa
Binomial name
Gogana carnosa
(Swinhoe, 1895)
Synonyms
  • Phalacropsis carnosa Swinhoe, 1895
  • Liocrops carnosa Swinhoe, 1895

Adults are ochreous-flesh colour (ochreous mixed with the idealized colour of the skin of British people in 1895), suffused with grey on the wings, both wings crossed by many sinuous, very fine and indistinct brown lines and with scattered black points. The outermost line is most distinct and black marked and there is a black cell-spot on the hindwings.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Liocrops carnosa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Gogana carnosa (Swinhoe, 1895)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  3. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1895 (1)


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