Conoeca psammogona

Conoeca psammogona is a species of bagworm that is known from Imerina in central Madagascar.[2]

Conoeca psammogona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Psychidae
Genus:
Conoeca
Species:
C. psammogona
Binomial name
Conoeca psammogona
(Meyrick, 1931)[1]
Synonyms

Narycia psammogona Meyrick, 1931

Biology

The length of the bag of the male is 16 mm, cylindrical, slightly narrowed anteriorly, formed of silk covered over with pinkish earth, sand grains and fragments of miscellaneous refuse.

The wingspan of male adults is 22 mm. Head, palpi, thorax are light grey sprinkled whitish. Antennal ciliations. Forewings rather elongate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; veins all separate; light grey sprinkled whitish; a few small darker grey spots or transverse strigulae scattered along posterior of costa and dorsum. Cilia whitish grey. Hindwings light grey; cilia whitish grey.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Conoeca Scott, 1864" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. afromoths.net
  3. Meyrick, 1931a. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4


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