''Macrothyatira oblonga'' is a
moth in the family
Drepanidae first described by
Gustave Arthur Poujade
Gustave Arthur Poujade (1845–1909, Fontainebleau) was a French entomologist interested in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He was an honorary preparator in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. The museum holds his collections.
He desc ...
in 1887. It is found in the Chinese provinces of
Sichuan and
Yunnan.
The forewings are dark greyish fuscous with wavy cross lines. The basal patch is small, projecting in the middle somewhat in the shape of a duck's beak. There is a small white spot at the middle of the costa and a large and a small white spot on the inner margin, often united. There is also an oblique rounded white apical patch and a small flattened anal patch. The wavy dark transverse lines are alternated with paler spaces and the outer and subterminal lines are edged with grey. The terminal lunules are dark with grey edges. The hindwings are fuscous tinged with luteous and there is a darker obscurely marked subterminal band.
Seitz, Adalbert. ''The Macrolepidoptera of the World: A Systematic Description of the Hitherto Known Macrolepidoptera''; 1913
References
Moths described in 1887
Thyatirinae
Moths of Asia
Taxa named by Gustave Arthur Poujade
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