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Flax bibrevipennis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Micronoctuidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Subfamily
  
Tentaxinae

Flax bibrevipennis is a moth of the Micronoctuidae family. It is found on Borneo (it was described from Sarawak).

The wingspan is 9-9.5 mm. The forewings have a costa which is shorter than the posterior margin. The ground colour is light grey brown, including the fringes. The base of the costa is dark brown. There is a dark-brown quadrangular patch in the upper medial area, with a black dot in the inner lower area. The crosslines are brown, except for the terminal line, which is indicated by dark-brown interveinal dots. The hindwings are grey. The underside of the forewings is unicolourous brown and the underside of the hindwings is grey with a discal spot.

References

Flax bibrevipennis Wikipedia