''Callidula oceanitis'' is a
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...
in the family
Callidulidae
Callidulidae, the only known family of the superfamily Calliduloidea, is the family of Old World butterfly-moths, containing eight genera. They have a peculiar distribution, restricted to the Old World tropics of Southeast Asia to Australasia ...
. It is found on the
Schouten Islands
The Schouten Islands ( id, Kepulauan Biak, also Biak Islands or Geelvink Islands) are an island group of Papua province, eastern Indonesia in the Cenderawasih Bay (or Geelvink Bay) 50 km off the north-western coast of the island of New ...
.
The length of the forewings is about 16 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is black-brown with a large rounded golden-yellow patch. The hindwings are also black-brown with a golden-yellow patch.
New Lepidoptera from the Schouten Islands
References
Callidulidae
Moths described in 1916
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