Leucoblepsis neoma

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Leucoblepsis neoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Genus: Leucoblepsis
Species:
L. neoma
Binomial name
Leucoblepsis neoma
(Swinhoe, 1905)
Synonyms
  • Problepsidis neoma Swinhoe, 1905

Leucoblepsis neoma is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Charles Swinhoe in 1905.[1] It is found in Singapore and on Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.[2]

Adults are white, suffused with pale chestnut-brown irrorations (sprinkles) in parts. There are two nearly straight brown lines from the abdominal margin of the hindwings. The first from one-third, the other from the middle, running parallel across both wings and suddenly converge on the middle of vein 5 of the forewings, and run from there in a single line to the costa near the apex. Between these lines on the forewings is a large hyaline (glass-like) spot and the rest of the wing is lightly suffused. There is a fairly broad pale pinkish band on the outer margin, composed of large pale pinkish spots joined together. The marginal line is brown. The hindwings have a nearly white inner area, the outer area from the outer line to the margin with dark suffusion and a dentated white line through the middle of the disc. The marginal line is white.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Leucoblepsis neoma​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  2. ^ Savela, Markku. "Leucoblepsis neoma (Swinhoe, 1905)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
  3. ^ Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (7) 15 (86): 150 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.