Biology:Preptos
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Short description: Genus of moths
| Preptos | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eupterotidae |
| Subfamily: | Eupterotinae |
| Genus: | Preptos Schaus, 1892 |
| Species: | P. oropus
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| Binomial name | |
| Preptos oropus Schaus, 1892
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| Synonyms | |
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Tagora corax Druce, 1893 | |
Preptos is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae. Its single species, Preptos oropus, is found in Mexico[1] and Guatemala.[2] Both the genus and species were first described by William Schaus in 1892.[3]
The wingspan is about 95 mm. Adults are fawn coloured, the outer margins of the forewings and hindwings are broadly brown and separated from the ground colour by a straight dark line extending from the apices to the inner margins near the angles on both wings. There is a median and on the forewings, as well as an outer transverse dark wavy shade and a blackish spot on the subcostal vein near the base.[4]
References
- ↑ Savela, Markku. "Preptos Schaus, 1892". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/bombycoidea/eupterotidae/eupterotinae/preptos/.
- ↑ "Taxonomy Browser: Preptos oropus". http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=162348.
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Preptos oropus". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=58343.
- ↑ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1892: 319
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