Neophylarcha helicosema

Neophylarcha helicosema is a moth in the Copromorphidae family, and the only species in the genus Neophylarcha. It is found in Guyana and French Guiana.[1]

Neophylarcha helicosema
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Neophylarcha

Meyrick, 1926
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N. helicosema
Binomial name
Neophylarcha helicosema
Meyrick, 1926

The wingspan is 15–17 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous, posteriorly tinged brownish-ochreous with some fuscous speckling and with short blackish-grey marks from the costa and dorsum at the base. There is an oblique blackish-grey shade from the costa at one-fifth reaching half across the wing, and a white spot emitting a short zigzag streak margined on each side by blackish-grey from costa at two-fifths, the space between these and on an oblique area beyond them suffused brownish-ochreous, from beneath the apex of spot a rather oblique line of blackish-grey irroration runs to the dorsum and there is a curved series of black dots or sublinear marks edged anteriorly with white scales running from the costa before three-fourths near the margins to the termen above the tornus. The hindwings of the males are whitish-grey-ochreous, while those of the females are grey.[2]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Neophylarcha helicosema". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  2. Exot. Microlep. 3 (5-7): 240


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