Oberthueria caeca
Oberthueria caeca is a moth in the Endromidae family. It was described by Oberthür in 1880.[1] It is found in China[2] (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Shaanxi, Henan), Korea[3] and the Russian Far East. The habitat consists of lowland broad-leaved humid forests.
| Oberthueria caeca | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Endromidae |
| Genus: | Oberthueria |
| Species: | O. caeca |
| Binomial name | |
| Oberthueria caeca (Oberthür, 1880) | |
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The wingspan is 38–45 mm. Adults have a dusty dark yellow ground colour and transversal dark grey to black lunate pattern on the wings. The submarginal fascia is outlined inside with black scales and the submarginal field of the forewings is suffused with brown scales and with orange scales on the hindwings. Adults are on wing from May to June and again from July to August in two generations per year.[4]
References
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Oberthueria caeca". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
- BOLD Systems
- Korean Red List
- Zolotuhin, V.V. & Xing Wang, 2013: A taxonomic review of Oberthueria Kirby, 1892 (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae: Oberthuerinae) with description of three new species. zootaxa 2013 3693 (4) 465–478.
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