Stenoglene pellucida
Stenoglene pellucida is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1924.[1] It is found in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Orientale).[2]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Eupterotidae |
Genus: | Stenoglene |
Species: | S. pellucida |
Binomial name | |
Stenoglene pellucida | |
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Description
The wingspan is about 37 mm. Both wings are subhyaline (almost glass like) white, with nine black spots on each side, five spots on the forewings and four on the hindwings, both in the postmedian areas. The forewings have two spots below the costa, the second much larger. There are two spots (one on each side of vein three), the lower one much the larger, and one short dash on the inner margin. Above this is a trace of a few black scales. The hindwings have one spot between veins six and seven, one spot on each side of vein three, the lower being the larger, and one spot on the inner margin. There are also traces of a series of submarginal points.[3]
References
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Stenoglene pellucida". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Stenoglene pellucida Joicey & Talbot, 1924". Afromoths. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1927). "Descriptions of new Heterocera from Africa and the East". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (9)20: 321–334. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.