Dragmatucha bivia

Dragmatucha bivia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lecithoceridae
Genus:	Dragmatucha
Species:	D. bivia
Binomial name
	Dragmatucha bivia; Meyrick, 1918

Dragmatucha bivia is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in South Africa.^[1]^[2]

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous with a nearly straight whitish-ochreous transverse streak at one-fourth and a nearly straight whitish-ochreous line from the costa near the apex to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are grey, darker towards the apex and with a small ochreous-white spot on the costa near the apex, where a cloudy whitish line runs near the termen to below its middle.^[3]

References[]

^ Savela, Markku (December 9, 2013). "Dragmatucha bivia Meyrick, 1918". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Idiopteryx bivia (Meyrick, 1918)". Afromoths. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
^ Meyrick, E. (August 1918). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 6 (2): 25 – via Sabinet.

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[funet-1] Savela, Markku (December 9, 2013). "Dragmatucha bivia Meyrick, 1918". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 20, 2020.

[2] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Idiopteryx bivia (Meyrick, 1918)". Afromoths. Retrieved August 20, 2020.

[3] Meyrick, E. (August 1918). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 6 (2): 25 – via Sabinet.

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