Xenomigia brachyptera

Xenomigia brachyptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Notodontidae
Subfamily: Dioptinae
Tribe: Dioptini
Genus: Xenomigia
Species: X. brachyptera
Binomial name
Xenomigia brachyptera
Sattler and Wojtusiak, 2000

Xenomigia brachyptera is a moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found in the Andes of western Venezuela.

It is the only known from males, which are brachypterous. It is the only brachypterous species in the Notodontidae family. Females are undoubtedly also flightless and perhaps wingless, but have not yet been found.

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