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Macrothyatira conspicua
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Drepanidae
Genus:	Macrothyatira
Species:	M. conspicua
Binomial name
Macrothyatira conspicua (Leech, 1900)
Synonyms
Thyatira conspicua Leech, 1900

Macrothyatira conspicua is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by John Henry Leech in 1900. It is found in the Chinese provinces of Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian, Sichuan and Yunnan and in Taiwan.

The forewings are pale fuscous brown, traversed by faint wavy lines. There is an irregularly shaped white basal patch, marked with black spots and outlined with black. The stigmata is white, outlined with black and there is a large white patch at the middle of the costa traversed by short dark lines and another towards the apex preceded and followed by black lines. There are some smaller white spots with black outlines on the outer part of the inner margin. The hindwings are yellowish, with a blackish subterminal band, outwardly diffuse.

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Macrothyatira conspicua​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
2. Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID 25947492.
3. Seitz, Adalbert. The Macrolepidoptera of the World: A Systematic Description of the Hitherto Known Macrolepidoptera; 1913 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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