Hozbeka anomala
| Hozbeka anomala | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Hozbeka Özdikmen, 2009 |
| Species: | H. anomala |
| Binomial name | |
| Hozbeka anomala (J.F.G. Clarke, 1978) | |
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Hozbeka anomala is a moth in the Oecophoridae family, and the only species in the genus Hozbeka. It was described by J.F.G. Clarke in 1978. It is found in Chile.[1][2]
The wingspan is about 23 mm. The ground color of the forewings is blackish fuscous, heavily overlaid with white. There is a blackish-fuscous spot at the basal fifth in the cell, followed at the basal third of the cell by a pair of confluent blackish-fuscous spots, followed by a pair of blackish-fuscous spots on the upper vein of the cell. There is a transverse broken blackish-fuscous bar at the end of the cell, extending to the tornus. There is a short blackish-fuscous bar from the apex along the termen. The hindwings are greyish fuscous, except for the cell, which is grey.[3]
References
- ↑ Faure, J.C. 1958: South African Thysanoptera - 8 . Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 21: 16-35.
- ↑ Özdikmen, H. 2009: Substitute names for two preoccupied moth genera names described by J. F. G. Clarke from Chile (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Munis entomology & zoology, 4: 114-116.
- ↑ Clarke, J.F.G. 1978: Neotropical Microlepidoptera, XXI: new genera and species of Oecophoridae from Chile. Smithsonian contributions to zoology, 273: 1-80.