Cyclotorna egena
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| Cyclotorna egena | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cyclotornidae |
| Genus: | Cyclotorna |
| Species: | C. egena |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyclotorna egena Meyrick, 1912 | |
Cyclotorna egena is a moth of the family Cyclotornidae. It is found in Australia, including New South Wales and Queensland.
Original description[edit]
female 12-13 mm. Head whitish. Antennæ, thorax, and abdomen fuscous. Legs pale fuscous; posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate-oval, costa rather strongly arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded, dorsum strongly arched before middle; a hyaline fovea on underside beneath costal vein at 1/4; fuscous, with fine whitish irroration; a suffusedly darker roundish spot above dorsum beyond middle, and a second in middisc at 2/3; cilia grey, with some whitish irroration. Hindwings with vein 4 absent; grey; cilia grey. N.Q.: Townsville, in October and December; two specimens, of which one is in Coll. Lyell, received from Mr. F. P. Dodd.
— Original description by Edward Meyrick[1]
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