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Typhonia animosa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Psychidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Subfamily
  
Typhoniinae

Typhonia animosa is a species of bagworm moth. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are white, the posterior half of the costa tinged with ochreous-yellowish and the costal edge blackish towards the base. The stigmata is moderately large, black and with the plical slightly beyond the first discal. There is a black dot in the middle of the disc between the stigmata, and about twenty small irregularly scattered black dots towards the margins. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous.

References

Typhonia animosa Wikipedia