Nordstromia bicostata: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Drepanidae
Genus
Nordstromia
Species
Nordstromia bicostata
Scientific Name
Nordstromia bicostata

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Nordstromia bicostata

Nordstromia bicostata is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1912. It is found in Sikkim in India, Sichuan in China, Nepal and northern Myanmar.

The wingspan is about 28 mm. The forewings are pale violaceous brown with red-brown antemedial and postmedial patches on the costa, the former with a slightly incurved fulvous line from it to the inner margin. There is an oblique fulvous subterminal line and the costal area towards the apex, the termen and cilia to vein 3 are all suffused with red-brown. The hindwings are ochreous yellow, the inner area greyish with a fulvous postmedial bar.

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Nordstromia bicostata
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Nordstromia bicostata
©Dr Namgyal T Sherpa, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)