Misplaced Pages

Paragnorima fuscescens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Drepanidae
Genus:	Paragnorima
Species:	P. fuscescens
Binomial name
Paragnorima fuscescens (Hampson, 1893)
Synonyms
Gaurena fuscescens Hampson, 1893 Palimpsestis brunnea Leech, 1900 Haplothyatira unipunctata Houlbert, 1921 Haplothyatira unipunctata dubitatrix Bryk, 1943

Paragnorima fuscescens is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1893. It is found in India, Nepal, China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet), Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar.

The wingspan is about 40 mm. The forewings are dull brown suffused with fuscous and with traces of numerous waved dark lines. There is a pale speck below the median nervure near the base and an indistinct dark spot on the discocellulars, as well as a pale patch at the apex. The hindwings are pale fuscous with an indistinct paler band just beyond the middle.

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Paragnorima fuscescens​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 27, 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. Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis. p. 182 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

This article on a moth of the subfamily Thyatirinae is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Moths described in 1893
• Thyatirinae
• Moths of Asia
• Taxa named by George Hampson
• Thyatirinae stubs