Biology:Xerocrates
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Xyloryctidae |
| Genus: | Xerocrates Meyrick, 1917 |
| Species: | X. proleuca
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| Xerocrates proleuca (Meyrick, 1890)
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Xerocrates is a monotypic moth genus in the family Xyloryctidae. Its only species, Xerocrates proleuca, is found in Australia , where it has been recorded from South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1890.[1]
The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are fuscous, towards the inner and hindmargin sprinkled with whitish and dark fuscous and with a moderate sharply marked snow-white streak along the costa from near the base to five-sixths, attenuated anteriorly to a point, beneath bordered by a broad ochreous-brown band from the base to three-fourths. There is an ill-defined small roundish dark fuscous spot beneath the middle of the disc, suffusedly margined with whitish, and a second, unmargined, in the disc at four-fifths. The hindwings are fuscous, rather darker posteriorly.[2]
References
- ↑ Savela, Markku, ed (15 December 2013). "Xerocrates Meyrick, 1917". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/xyloryctidae/xerocrates/.
- ↑ McMillan, Ian (1 July 2010). "Xerocrates". http://xyloryctinemothsofaustralia.blogspot.com/2010/07/xerocrates.html.
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Wikidata ☰ Q13637987 entry
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