Metacosmesis aelinopa

Metacosmesis aelinopa is a moth in the family Carposinidae first described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1982.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.[2][3]

Metacosmesis aelinopa
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M. aelinopa
Binomial name
Metacosmesis aelinopa
Diakonoff, 1982

Description

The wingspan of an adult male is 16 mm. Head whitish. Antenna brownish. Palpus dark fuscous base to snow-white apex. Thorax and tegula creamy. Abdomen white. Forewings long and narrow. Costa concave with a pointed apex. Termen strongly oblique. Forewings are Whitish with light grayish-fuscous suffusion. Markings are fuscous and black. Cilia creamy white. Hindwings silvery. Cilia white which becomes creamy towards the apex.[4]

References

  1. "Species Details: Metacosmesis aelinopa Diakonoff, 1982". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Metacosmesis aelinopa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  3. Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 via Academia.
  4. Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 193: 1–124 via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.


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