Promenesta chrysampyx
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| Species: | P. chrysampyx
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| Promenesta chrysampyx Meyrick, 1915
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Promenesta chrysampyx is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Guyana, Brazil (Amazonas) and Peru.[1]
The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, with a faint purplish tinge and a slender deep ochreous-yellow streak along the costa throughout, continued around the termen to the tornus, with its edge slightly waved. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]
References
- ^ Promenesta at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (13): 412