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Canucha curvaria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Drepanidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Canucha

Canucha curvaria is a moth in the Drepanidae family. It was described by Walker in 1866. It is found on Misool Island, in New Guinea and on the Solomon Islands.

Adults are pale ochreous, the wings with indistinct ochreous specks and with some more conspicuous black specks, mostly along the exterior border. The veins are whitish and there is a whitish undulating line from near the tips of the forewings to a little beyond the middle of the interior border of the hindwings.

References

Canucha curvaria Wikipedia