Sarisophora Hadroides
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''Sarisophora hadroides'' is a
moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
in the family
Lecithoceridae The Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalayan realm and the southern part of the ...
. It was described by Kyu-Tek Park in 2012. It is found in
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
.


Etymology

The species name is derived from
Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
word ''hadro'' meaning thick, stout. Park, K. T. (2012)
"Lecithoceridae (Gelechioidea, Lepidoptera) of New Guinea Part X: Review of the genus ''Sarisophora'', with descriptions of seven new species"
''Tropical Lepidoptera Research''. 22 (1): 8-15.


References

Moths described in 2012 Sarisophora {{Lecithocerinae-stub