Biology:Dragmatucha bivia
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Short description: Species of moth
| Dragmatucha bivia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lecithoceridae |
| Genus: | Dragmatucha |
| Species: | D. bivia
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| Binomial name | |
| Dragmatucha bivia Meyrick, 1918
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Dragmatucha bivia is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in South Africa .[1][2]
The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous with a nearly straight whitish-ochreous transverse streak at one-fourth and a nearly straight whitish-ochreous line from the costa near the apex to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are grey, darker towards the apex and with a small ochreous-white spot on the costa near the apex, where a cloudy whitish line runs near the termen to below its middle.[3]
References
- ↑ Savela, Markku (December 9, 2013). "Dragmatucha bivia Meyrick, 1918". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/lecithoceridae/lecithocerinae/dragmatucha/#bivia. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2019). "Idiopteryx bivia (Meyrick, 1918)". http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/DRAGBIVI. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- ↑ Meyrick, E. (August 1918). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum 6 (2): 25. https://journals.co.za/content/nfi_annalstm/6/2/AJA00411752_795.
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Wikidata ☰ Q22284982 entry
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