Deuterocopus honoratus
| Deuterocopus honoratus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Deuterocopus |
| Species: | D. honoratus |
| Binomial name | |
| Deuterocopus honoratus Meyrick, 1921 | |
Deuterocopus honoratus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found in Queensland, Australia.
Original description
(wingspan male 11 mm) Head, thorax, abdomen whity-brownish suffusedly irrorated blackish, margins of abdominal segments slightly marked white on dorsum, ventral surface snow-white with dark ante-median band. Forewings cleft firstly to 3/5, second segment cleft nearly to 1/4 from base; coppery-brownish suffusedly irrorated blackish; a white dot on dorsum at 1/4; an oval white spot in disc before cleft, and small dorsal mark beneath and almost confluent with it; some scattered white scales indicating bars at 1/3 and 2/3 of first segment, and middle of other two: cilia dark grey, blackish spots edged by whitish patches at apex of each segment, ochreous-whitish patches on middle of lower margin of first segment and on dorsum towards cleft. Hindwings dark fuscous, basal third light orange-fulvous; cilia dark grey, third segment with black dorsal scaletooth before middle, and large black scale-projection occupying both sides of apical third. Queensland, Brisbane, March (Dodd); 1 ex., Wals. Coll. (19403).— Original description by Edward Meyrick
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