Alucita anticoma

Alucita anticoma is a moth in the family Alucitidae. It is found in New Guinea.[1][2]

Alucita anticoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Alucitidae
Genus: Alucita
Species:
A. anticoma
Binomial name
Alucita anticoma
(Meyrick, 1929)
Synonyms
  • Orneodes anticoma Meyrick, 1929

This species belongs to a group of species with white forewings and has a wingspan of 17mm.[3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Alucita anticoma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  2. "The Many-plumed Moths (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) of Papua Indonesia". Papua-insects.nl. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  3. Gielis, C. (2009). Additions to the Alucitidae of Papua, Indonesia (Lepidoptera). Bolentin Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 44:15-33.


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