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Deuterocopus honoratus

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Species of plume moth

Deuterocopus honoratus
Deuterocopus honoratus Meyrick, 1921, male holotype, Natural History Museum specimen NHMUK010919172
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Deuterocopus
Species: D. honoratus
Binomial name
Deuterocopus honoratus
Meyrick, 1921

Deuterocopus honoratus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Queensland, Australia.

Original description

(wingspan male 11 mm) Head, thorax, abdomen whity-brownish suffusedly irrorated blackish, margins of abdominal segments slightly marked white on dorsum, ventral surface snow-white with dark ante-median band. Forewings cleft firstly to 3/5, second segment cleft nearly to 1/4 from base; coppery-brownish suffusedly irrorated blackish; a white dot on dorsum at 1/4; an oval white spot in disc before cleft, and small dorsal mark beneath and almost confluent with it; some scattered white scales indicating bars at 1/3 and 2/3 of first segment, and middle of other two: cilia dark grey, blackish spots edged by whitish patches at apex of each segment, ochreous-whitish patches on middle of lower margin of first segment and on dorsum towards cleft. Hindwings dark fuscous, basal third light orange-fulvous; cilia dark grey, third segment with black dorsal scaletooth before middle, and large black scale-projection occupying both sides of apical third. Queensland, Brisbane, March (Dodd); 1 ex., Wals. Coll. (19403).

— Original description by Edward Meyrick

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Deuterocopus honoratus


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