Macrocirca
| Macrocirca | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Macrocirca Meyrick in Rosen, 1931[1] |
| Species: | M. strabo
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| Binomial name | |
| Macrocirca strabo Meyrick, 1931
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Macrocirca is a genus of moths in the family Depressariidae. It contains only one species, Macrocirca strabo, which is found in Argentina.[2]
The wingspan is 38–48 mm. The forewings are whitish irregularly irrorated with dark grey, the veins appearing as darker streaks. There is a fine black dash in the cell before the middle, surrounded by a pale area. And there is a transverse blackish line on the end of the cell (indicating the second discal), also surrounded by whitish, before, between, and beyond these are undefined patches of dark suffusion. The hindwings are pale grey, darker towards the apex and termen.[3]
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Categories:
- Ethmiinae
- Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
- Monotypic moth genera
- Moths of South America
- Ethmiinae stubs