Megalopyge uruguayensis

Megalopyge uruguayensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Megalopygidae
Genus:	Megalopyge
Species:	M. uruguayensis
Binomial name
	Megalopyge uruguayensis; Berg, 1882
Synonyms
	Megalopyge chacona Schaus, 1920;

Megalopyge uruguayensis is a moth of the family Megalopygidae. It was described by Carlos Berg in 1882. It is found in Uruguay and Argentina.^[1]

The wingspan is about 30 mm. The forewings are fuscous, shaded with grey about the tornus. The veins are all white and there is a white shade at the end of the cell, joined by a postmedial white shade from the costa, partly cutting off a portion of the dark ground colour. There is also a postmedial interveinal white streak. The hindwings are white with fuscous scaling on the inner margin and the terminal space is broadly fuscous, cut by white veins.^[2]

References[]

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Megalopyge uruguayensis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
^ "New species of Lepidoptera in the United States National Museum". Proceedings of the United States National Museum.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Megalopyge uruguayensis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 16, 2018.

[2] "New species of Lepidoptera in the United States National Museum". Proceedings of the United States National Museum.

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