Biology:Araeostoma
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Short description: Monotypic moth genus in family Xyloryctidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Xyloryctidae |
| Genus: | Araeostoma Turner, 1917 |
| Species: | A. aenicta
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| Binomial name | |
| Araeostoma aenicta Turner, 1917
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Araeostoma aenicta is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae, and the only species in the genus Araeostoma. It was described by Turner in 1917 and is found in Australia , where it has been recorded from Queensland[1] and New South Wales.
The wingspan is 17–28 mm. The forewings are fuscous with patchy whitish irroration and a dark fuscous discal dot above the middle at one-third and a second obliquely elongate before two-thirds. The posterior third of the costal edge is whitish with four dark fuscous dots and with a fine crenulate whitish line just before the termen. The hindwings are fuscous.[2]
References
- ↑ funet.fi
- ↑ Xyloryctine Moths of Australia
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Wikidata ☰ Q18522347 entry
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