Psychostrophia Butler, 1877

Huang, Si-Yao, Wang, Min, Da, Wa & Fan, Xiao-Ling, 2019, New discoveries of the family Epicopeiidae from China, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Epicopeiidae), ZooKeys 822, pp. 33-51 : 41

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.822.32341

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C794C531-EA76-4A87-911D-4597C5068364

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BAD26499-C459-5922-A0FE-5C0771B8FFED

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scientific name

Psychostrophia Butler, 1877
status

 

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Psychostrophia Butler, 1877: 401, type species: Psychostrophia melanargia Butler, 1877.

Diagnosis.

The genus Psychostrophia is characterized by the following characters: hindwing with cilia mostly black, except the part between vein M1 and M3 white; uncus long, thin and tubular for most of its length; aedeagus with a bunch of slender cornuti and coecum well developed and long.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Epicopeiidae