Euhomalocera
Monotypic moth genus in family Schreckensteiniidae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monotypic moth genus in family Schreckensteiniidae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Euhomalocera is a genus of moths in the family Schreckensteiniidae. It contains the species Euhomalocera heliosema, which is found in the Philippines (Mindanao).[1]
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Genus: | Euhomalocera Diakonoff, [1968] |
Species: | E. heliosema |
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Euhomalocera heliosema Diakonoff, [1968] | |
16 mm. The forewings are black with strong purple reflections except on the broad dull edges to the markings. The markings are bright yellow. There is a rather slender semiclavate longitudinal median mark from beyond the base to one-third of the wing, its anterior end touching a shorter wedge-shaped parallel streak above the preceding. There is a streak along the dorsum from well beyond the base to before the tornus, containing a semi-oval spot of ground color on one-fourth of the dorsum. This streak is gently narrowed posteriorly, but on the middle of the dorsum dilated into a triangle with the acute top reaching the middle of the disc. There is also an elongate-triangular patch on the costa occupying less than its third fourth, the anterior edge little, the posterior strongly oblique, the top to the closing vein. There is a longitudinal stripe from the closing vein, below the middle of the wing, furcate posteriorly, a narrow line above and beyond it and another, shorter, below it. The hindwings are deep blackish brown with purple reflections.[2]
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