Palinorsa raptans
| Palinorsa raptans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Palinorsa |
| Species: | P. raptans
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| Binomial name | |
| Palinorsa raptans (Meyrick, 1920)
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Palinorsa raptans is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1920. It is found in Peru and Brazil (Amazonas).[1]
The wingspan is about 28 mm. The forewings are dark brown, with violet iridescence and a suffused dark fuscous median longitudinal streak from the base to the apex, and one along the fold to a spot beneath the middle of the wing followed by a white dot, between these a band of greyish-violet suffusion extends to the termen. There is a transverse suffused dark fuscous spot from the upper margin of the median streak at three-fifths. The hindwings are grey, paler and subhyaline towards the base.[2]
References
- ^ Palinorsa at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (12): 366
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