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Hozbeka anomala

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Oecophoridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Hozbeka Ă–zdikmen, 2009

Hozbeka anomala is a moth in the Oecophoridae family, and the only species in the genus Hozbeka. It was described by J.F.G. Clarke in 1978. It is found in Chile.

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The ground color of the forewings is blackish fuscous, heavily overlaid with white. There is a blackish-fuscous spot at the basal fifth in the cell, followed at the basal third of the cell by a pair of confluent blackish-fuscous spots, followed by a pair of blackish-fuscous spots on the upper vein of the cell. There is a transverse broken blackish-fuscous bar at the end of the cell, extending to the tornus. There is a short blackish-fuscous bar from the apex along the termen. The hindwings are greyish fuscous, except for the cell, which is grey.

References

Hozbeka anomala Wikipedia


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