Taragmarcha laqueata
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Oecophoridae |
Genus: | Taragmarcha |
Species: | T. laqueata
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Binomial name | |
Taragmarcha laqueata Meyrick, 1910
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Taragmarcha laqueata is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. It is endemic on the island of Mauritius.[1]
It has a wingspan of 17mm, head and thorax are dark glossy fuscous, palpi white. Antennae whitish, ringed with dark fuscous. The abdomen is grey. Forewings are elongated, rather dark glossy fuscous, with a white streak along basal third of costa. Hindwings are dark grey[2]
Another species, Taragmarcha borbonensis, from the neighboring island of La Réunion had originally been designated as a subspecies of T. laqueata.
References
[edit]- ^ "AfroMoths". AfroMoths. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
- ^ Meyrick, E. 1910a. Descriptions of Micro-Lepidoptera from Mauritius and Chagos Isles. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1910(3):370