Hoplomorpha camelaea
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Hoplomorpha |
| Species: | H. camelaea |
| Binomial name | |
| Hoplomorpha camelaea (Meyrick, 1888) | |
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Hoplomorpha camelaea is a moth in the Oecophoridae family. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria,[1] Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous with a large dark reddish-fuscous white-margined blotch extending on the inner margin from one-fourth to four-fifth, gradually narrowing upwards, reaching more than half across the wing, the upper side rounded but deeply triangularly indented before the middle. There is a cloudy greyish-pink band from the middle of the costa to the apex of this blotch, posteriorly margined by a brown line suffused with ferruginous and a curved transverse linear dark fuscous mark in the disc, its lower extremity touching the upper posterior angle of the blotch. There is a dark brown streak, suffused beneath with ferruginous, along the costa from the base, interrupted by a median band, beyond it leaving the costa and continued in a strong outward curve to the anal angle, broader and more suffused anteriorly in the disc, attenuated and nearly obsolete on the anal angle. The curve is posteriorly well-defined and margined by a whitish-ochreous line except towards the costa. Beyond this line, the apical area is wholly greyish-pink. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, the apical half dark grey, continued as a suffused streak along the hindmargin to the anal angle.[2]
References
- "Australian Moths Online :: Hoplomorpha camelaea". Retrieved 2008-12-27.
- "Hoplomorpha camelaea". Retrieved 2008-12-27.
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