Biology:Rhynchoferella syncentra
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Short description: Species of moth
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| Rhynchoferella syncentra (Meyrick, 1916)[1]
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Rhynchoferella syncentra is a moth of the Copromorphidae family. It is found in Madagascar and South Africa , where it is known from Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Gauteng.[2]
Meyrick described this species as follows:[3]
Male 32 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ocherous. Abdomen grey. Forewings very elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, faintly sinuate in middle, apex very obtusely rounded, termen rounded, little oblique; pale brownish-ochreous, irregularly suffused with fuscous towards costa, posterior half of wing sprinkled with dark fuscous specks with some fuscous suffusion, terminal edge suffused with fuscous: cilia fuscous. Hindwings pale greyish; cilia whitish, with faint greyish basal shade.
References
- ↑ afromoths.net
- ↑ Mey, W., 2007. Esperiana Memoir 4: 1-304
- ↑ Meyrick, Exotic microlepidoptera, v. 1-5, Mar. 1912-Nov. 1937, page: 8
Wikidata ☰ Q7321696 entry
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