Xenomigia caesura

Xenomigia caesura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Notodontidae
Genus: Xenomigia
Species: X. caesura
Binomial name
Xenomigia caesura
Miller, 2011

Xenomigia caesura is a moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found in north-eastern Ecuador.[1]

The length of the forewings is 13-16.5 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is light chocolate brown with orange-yellow veins. The wing base is dark brown. The hindwings are translucent light brown.

The larvae feed on Chusquea species.

Etymology

The species name is derived from Latin caesura (meaning a pause or break) and refers to the white mark arising from the forewing anal margin, which forms a narrow, transverse bar in most Xenomigia species but which is interrupted along the anal fold to form two small, white spots in X. caesura.

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