Biology:Metacosmesis aelinopa
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Short description: Species of moth
| Metacosmesis aelinopa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Carposinidae |
| Genus: | Metacosmesis |
| Species: | M. aelinopa
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| Binomial name | |
| Metacosmesis aelinopa Diakonoff, 1982
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Metacosmesis aelinopa is a moth in the family Carposinidae first described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1982.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.[2][3]
Description
The wingspan of an adult male is 16 mm. Head whitish. Antenna brownish. Palpus dark fuscous base to snow-white apex. Thorax and tegula creamy. Abdomen white. Forewings long and narrow. Costa concave with a pointed apex. Termen strongly oblique. Forewings are Whitish with light grayish-fuscous suffusion. Markings are fuscous and black. Cilia creamy white. Hindwings silvery. Cilia white which becomes creamy towards the apex.[4]
References
- ↑ "Species Details: Metacosmesis aelinopa Diakonoff, 1982". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/775944df045450d955f2ab6c46acdb97. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Metacosmesis aelinopa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=117295.
- ↑ Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News (Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara) (79): 1–57. https://www.academia.edu/1782757/Ko%C3%A7ak_A.%C3%96._and_M._Kemal_2012_Preliminary_list_of_the_Lepidoptera_of_Sri_Lanka._Cesa_News_79_1-57.
- ↑ Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen 193: 1–124. http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149137.
- Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Natural History Museum, London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Arctiidae&sort=GENUS.
Wikidata ☰ Q13846752 entry
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