Phanoptis fatidica
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Phanoptis fatidica (Dognin, 1910)
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Phanoptis fatidica is a moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found from Venezuela west to Colombia, then south along the eastern slope of the Andes to central Peru.
Adults have uniformly iridescent blue-black fore- and hindwings with a single white transverse forewing band.
References
- Miller, J.S. 2009: Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 321: 1-674.