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Gomphoscopa catoryctopsis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Xyloryctidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Rank
  
Species

Genus
  
Gomphoscopa Lower, 1901

Gomphoscopa catoryctopsis is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family, and the only species in the genus Gomphoscopa. It was described by Lower in 1893 and is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from South Australia.

The wingspan is 23–27 mm. The forewings are fuscous, suffusedly mixed with whitish. There is a white streak along the costa from the base to beyond the middle, attenuated posteriorly and continued to near the apex, the anterior portion containing a fine grey line, the lower portion edged with a fine black line. There is an elongate white mark in the middle of the wing, outlined with black. A thick white streak is found from the base along the fold, suffusedly continued to near the anal angle, partially edged below with a fine black line. All veins towards the hindmargin are sharply defined by black lines, the interspaces filled with white. There is also a hindmarginal row of black dots. The hindwings are grey.

References

Gomphoscopa catoryctopsis Wikipedia


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