Phytomimia

Phytomimia chlorophylla is a moth in the family Depressariidae, and the only species in the genus Phytomimia. It was described by Walsingham in 1912 and is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica and Peru.[1]

Phytomimia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Subfamily: Depressariinae
Genus: Phytomimia
Walsingham, 1912
Species:
P. chlorophylla
Binomial name
Phytomimia chlorophylla
Walsingham, 1912
Synonyms
  • Phytomimia redundans Walsingham, 1912
  • Phytomimia silvicolor Meyrick, 1932
  • Phytomimia cynegetis Meyrick, 1932
  • Phytomimia pyrrhophthalma Meyrick, 1932

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are bright grass-green, the costa narrowly flesh-coloured throughout. A slender, oblique, flesh-coloured line before the termen crosses the veins, but does not reach the margins and a single dot of black scales is found on the disc at the end of the cell. The hindwings are pearly white.[2]

References
  1. Phytomimia chlorophylla at funet.fi.
  2. Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 134 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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