Pseudopostega monstruosa

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Pseudopostega monstruosa
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Opostegidae
Genus: Pseudopostega
Species:
P. monstruosa
Binomial name
Pseudopostega monstruosa
D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007

Pseudopostega monstruosa is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is only known from Amazonian premontane rainforest in east-central Ecuador.

The length of the forewings is about 3 mm. Adults are mostly white. Adults have been collected in January.

Etymology[]

The species name is derived from the Latin monstruosa (weird, unusual, prodigious, frightening) in reference to the unusually large pedicel and large, wrinkled gnathos in the male genitalia.

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