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Microblepsis cupreogrisea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Drepanidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Microblepsis

Microblepsis cupreogrisea is a moth in the Drepanidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1895. It is found in Burma, the north-eastern Himalayas and on Borneo and Sumatra.

The wingspan is about 25 mm. Adults are leaden grey, with a slight coppery tinge, the forewings with a dark ferruginous basal patch in and below the cell extending along the median nervure to the anal angle of the cell. There are two minute white specks on the discocellulars and the apex is orange with a black spot. There is an oblique line from below the apex to the middle of the inner margin and a dark ferruginous marginal band transversed by a fine white curved submarginal line and a fine orange marginal line. The hindwings have ferruginous medial and marginal bands, the latter transversed by fine pale submarginal and marginal lines.

References

Microblepsis cupreogrisea Wikipedia