Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Hexapoda Order Lepidoptera Rank Genus | Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Family Drepanidae | |
Similar Microblepsis, Callidrepana, Albara, Callidrepana patrana, Tridrepana | ||
callicilix abraxata abraxata
Callicilix is a genus of insects belonging to the subfamily Drepaninae. It contains the single species Callicilix abraxata.
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The wingspan is about 44 mm. Adults are creamy-white, all wings with a marginal series of large oval grey-brown spots and some partly confluent irregular patches tending to form a submarginal band. The forewings are crossed by a broad and somewhat irregular central belt, which is grey-brown towards the costa and enclosing a spot of the ground colour, but dark golden brown below the subcostal vein, crossed by pearl-grey veins with black extremities and transversed internally by a pale sinuous line. There are three grey-brown spots across the basal area and there are two oval spots on the radial interspaces and a third pearl-white spot near the apex. The hindwings have a large grey-brown patch from the center of the abdominal margin to the middle of the wing, where it is continued by two spots to the costa. There is a small spot near the base of the interno-median area and four pearl-white spots on the disc between the submedian and radial veins.