Xyrosaris obtorta Meyrick, 1923

Agassiz, David J. L., 2019, The Yponomeutidae of the Afrotropical region (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea), Zootaxa 4600 (1), pp. 1-69 : 34

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4600.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4341423

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/22430230-FFDC-5D2C-FF5C-FAAFFE6EF8E8

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scientific name

Xyrosaris obtorta Meyrick, 1923
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41. Xyrosaris obtorta Meyrick, 1923 View in CoL

Xyrosaris obtorta Meyrick, 1923: 554 View in CoL

Type locality: Rodriguez Island .

Redescription of adult ( Plate 6 View PLATE 6 ). Wingspan 10 mm. Head tufted, brownish white, palpus clothed with white scales. Thorax and tegula whitish irrorate pale brown. Forewing whitish, inwardly oblique partial fascia from dorsum just before halfway, a diffuse spot near costa and furhter spots towards termen, a blackish line around termen; fringe dark brown. Hindwing pale grey.

Male genitalia. Not examined.

Female genitalia. Not examined.

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the blackish spot on dorsum before middle which is almost extended to an inwardly oblique fascia and the pair of spots towards apex.

Biology. Not known.

Distribution. Rodriguez Island.

Type material. Lectotype ♂ (designated by Lewis & Sohn, 2015) Specimen without abdomen, Rodriguez Is. viii–xi.1918 H.F. Tomasett & H.J. Snell coll. Paralectotype ♀ hereby designated, same data as holotype .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Yponomeutidae

Genus

Xyrosaris

Loc

Xyrosaris obtorta Meyrick, 1923

Agassiz, David J. L. 2019
2019
Loc

Xyrosaris obtorta

Meyrick, E. 1923: 554
1923
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