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Fibuloides rusticola

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Fibuloides rusticola is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found on Seram Island in Indonesia. The habitat consists of bamboo and secondary forests.

The wingspan is about 17.5 mm. The forewings are whitish, suffused and strigulated (finely streaked) with brown, in the anterior half of the wing with blackish brown, brownish grey postmedially and yellow ferruginous in the apical area. The costal strigulae are white with rust-brown divisions. The hindwings are grey brown, with brown veins. Females are paler than males with a brownish-white ground colour with brownish strigulae and suffusions.

Etymology

The species name refers to the collecting place of one of the paratypes, the village (Latin: rus or ruris) of Kanikeh.

References

Fibuloides rusticola Wikipedia


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