Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Family Hedylidae Genus Hedylidae | Class Insecta Superfamily Hedyloidea Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | |
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Similar Hedylidae, Macrosoma conifera, Macrosoma cascaria | ||
Macrosoma bahiata is moth-like butterfly described by Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875. It belongs to the Hedylidae family. Originally it belonged to the genus Phellinodes. Malcolm J. Scoble combined it with Macrosoma in 1986.
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Distribution
The species is found in East Mexico, Quintana Roo Territory through Central America to Lima, Peru. East to Belém, Bahia, Brazil at the mouth of the Amazon.
Wings
M. bahiata has wings of greyish brown ground colour. The apex of the forewing is dark brown and very weakly emarginate. Small white marks are usually merged at proximal edge of dark apical patch. And prominent, dark, postmedial spot towards middle of wing is found.
The length of the forewing is 19–24 mm.
Male
Followings are the characteristics of the male genitalia:
Female
The female genitalia has the following features:
Antenna
The antenna is not bipectinate in both sexes.
Diagnosis
The prominent postmedial spot on the forewing enables M. bahiata to be get distinguished from M. uniformis, M. albistria, and M. coscoja, the species to which it looks most similar. The shape of the Gnathos is a usefully a distinguishing feature.