Lasiomorpha

Lasiomorpha is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae first described by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1916.[1] Its single species, Lasiomorpha noakesi, was described by the same authors in the same year.[2] It is found on New Guinea.[3]

Lasiomorpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Eupterotidae
Genus:
Lasiomorpha

Joicey & Talbot in Joicey, Noakes & Talbot, 1916
Species:
L. noakesi
Binomial name
Lasiomorpha noakesi
Joicey & Talbot, 1916
Synonyms
  • Lasiomorpha meeki Rothschild, 1917

The length of the forewings is about 38 mm. The ground colour of the wings is deep purplish brown, heavily scaled and covered with short hairs at the base. The forewings have a large hyaline (glass-like) patch without scales below, but is sprinkled with scales of the ground colour above. The patch is traversed by a dark line parallel to its outer edge which separates a narrow border more thickly scaled than the larger proximal part. There is a small tuft of yellow hair on the middle discocellular. The hindwings are without markings.[4]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Lasiomorpha". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Lasiomorpha noakesi". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  3. Savela, Markku. "Lasiomorpha noakesi Joicey & Talbot, 1916". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  4. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1915 (3-4): 384


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