Parapsestis lichenea

Parapsestis lichenea is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1893.[1] It is found in Sikkim in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the Chinese provinces of Henan, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Hubei, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet.[2]

Parapsestis lichenea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Drepanidae
Genus:
Parapsestis
Species:
P. lichenea
Binomial name
Parapsestis lichenea
(Hampson, 1893)
Synonyms
  • Gaurena lichenea Hampson, 1893
  • Cymatophora candida Houlbert, 1921

The wingspan is about 38 mm. The forewings are whitish grey, crossed by numerous waved dark lines. There are indistinct antemedial, postmedial and submarginal curved dark bands and the orbicular and reniform spots are indistinct, the former figure-of-8 shaped, the latter elongate. There is also an oblique black apical streak and a marginal lunulate line. The hindwings are white with an indistinct medial fuscous line and a broad blackish marginal band.[3]

Subspecies
  • Parapsestis lichenea lichenea (India: Sikkim)
  • Parapsestis lichenea splendida Laszlo, G. Ronkay, L. Ronkay & Witt, 2007 (Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, China: Yunnan, Tibet)
  • Parapsestis lichenea tsinlinga Laszlo, G. Ronkay, L. Ronkay & Witt, 2007 (China: Henan, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Hubei, Fujian, Sichuan)
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References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Parapsestis lichenea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  2. Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID 25947492.
  3. Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. p. 182 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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