Didymana bidens

Didymana bidens is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by John Henry Leech in 1890.[1] It is found in the Chinese provinces of Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi and Fujian and in north-eastern Myanmar.[2]

Didymana bidens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Drepanidae
Genus:
Didymana
Species:
D. bidens
Binomial name
Didymana bidens
(Leech, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Drepana bidens Leech, 1890
  • Didymana renei Bryk, 1943

The wingspan is about 30 mm. The forewings are purplish black, the outer margin bordered with tawny, interrupted by a line and cloud of the ground colour and preceded by a broad whitish band. The hindwings are similar to the forewings, but paler and without the submarginal band.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Didymana bidens​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Didymana bidens (Leech, 1890)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  3. Entomologist 23: 113 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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