Xenorma cytheris
| Xenorma cytheris | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Genus: | Xenorma |
| Species: | X. cytheris |
| Binomial name | |
| Xenorma cytheris (Druce, 1891) | |
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Xenorma cytheris is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is widely distributed in Central America, occurring from Veracruz, Mexico, south to Costa Rica.
Adults have bright yellow fore- and hindwing markings on a dark chocolate-brown ground color.
References
- Miller, J.S. 2009: Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 321: 1-674.
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