Hyblaea

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Hyblaea
Hyblaea constellata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hyblaeidae
Genus: Hyblaea
Fabricius, 1793
Synonyms
  • Aenigma Strecker, 1876
  • Nychophila Billberg, 1820

Hyblaea is a genus of moths of the family Hyblaeidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793.

Description

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Head very small. Palpi porrect (extending forward) and rostriform (beak shaped). Antennae minutely ciliated in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia clothed with long hairs and spineless. Forewings with costa arched near base, with lobed inner margin. The cell open. Veins 6 to 9 arise from close to angle of cell. Hindwings with open cell. Vein 8 anastomosing with vein 7 to near middle of cell.[1]

Taxonomy

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The genus consists of the following species:[2]

References

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