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A New Cotton-seed Moth (Mometa zemiodes) from West Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Extract

Antennae ⅔, basal joint with distinct pecten; serrate and shortly ciliate in ♂. Labial Palpi long, recurved, both joints smoothly but somewhat thickly clothed, with furrow beneath; terminal joint distinctly shorter than median. Maxillary Palpi appressed to haustellum. Haustellum well-developed, scaled. Ocelli absent. Head and Thorax smoothly clothed with appressed scales. Forewings elongatelanceolate, apex blunt-pointed: neuration, 12 veins; 7–8 stalked, 7 to costa; rest separate, 2 remote from 3, 5 approximate to 4; 1 basally furcate. Hindwings 1+, trapezoidal, apex pointed, termen sinuate beneath: neuration, 8 veins; 6–7 very closely approximate toward base; 3–4 connate; 5 parallel to 4. Abdomen moderate. Legs: hind tibiae and the long basal joint of tarsi haired above, laterally compressed.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

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References

* [for the habits of the larva, see p. 201.—ED.]