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DESCRIPTION OF A SEEMINGLY RARE AND UNIQUE MOTH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ph. Fischer
Ph. Fischer
Affiliation:
Buffalo, N. Y.
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Brotis vulneraria Hüb.

This moth appears to be the only one of its genus so far known in the United States.

Head small, yellowish red, almost hidden between the large and prominent eyes, which are naked; palpi medium, slender, lighter colored; thorax long, covered with long fine hair; abdomen much shorter than the anal margin and Hesperi-shaped. Posterior wings elongated, costa straight, somewhat curved at apex, outer margin straight, inner margin somewhat rounded. on anterior wings the anal margin is longer than upper and outer margin, the latter being strongly rounded.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , April 1886 , pp. 72 - 73
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1886

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* Bahia or San Salvador is a province of Brazil, about 600 miles north of Rio Janeiro.