Microblepsis violacea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Drepanidae |
Genus: | Microblepsis |
Species: | M. violacea
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Binomial name | |
Microblepsis violacea (Butler, 1889)[1]
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Microblepsis violacea is a moth in the family Drepanidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1889. It is found in north-western and north-eastern India, Taiwan and China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian).[2]
The wingspan is 25–36 mm.:[3] the males of the antennae are double-toothed, and the females are filamentous; the overall color is quite uniform in gray-purple color, the top of the head, the front edge of the fore wing, the outer edge and the outer edge of the hind wing are orange-brown; The 1/4 segment of the apex angle is obviously curved outward, the tip of the apex is sharp, the outer edge is slightly inward at 1/5 of the apex angle, and the middle section of the posterior and posterior wing of the fore wing has a brown line, respectively. The former is slightly curved.[4]
The larvae feed on the leaves of Castanopsis formosana. The mature larvae spin silk and are fixed at the tip or base of the leaf where pupation takes place.[5]