Acraga citrinopsis

Acraga citrinopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Dalceridae
Genus:	Acraga
Species:	A. citrinopsis
Binomial name
	Acraga citrinopsis; (Dyar, 1927)
Synonyms
	Anacraga citrinopsis Dyar, 1927;

Acraga citrinopsis is a moth of the Dalceridae family. It is found in Venezuela, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. The habitat consists of tropical moist, tropical dry, tropical premontane moist, subtropical moist and warm temperate moist or dry forests.

The length of the forewings is 8–10 mm for males and 14 mm for females. Adults are whitish with a yellow tinge, the dorsal forewings are slightly more yellow than the pale hindwings. Adults are on wing year-round.

The larvae feed on Ricinus communis.^[1]

References

^ Miller, S.E., 1994: Systematics of the Neotropical moth family Dalceridae (Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 153(4): 1–495. Full Article: [1]

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[1] Miller, S.E., 1994: Systematics of the Neotropical moth family Dalceridae (Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 153(4): 1–495. Full Article: [1]

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