Rectiostoma eusema
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Rectiostoma |
| Species: | R. eusema
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| Binomial name | |
| Rectiostoma eusema (Walsingham, 1914)
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Rectiostoma eusema is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1914.[1] It is found in Guatemala.[2]
The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are bright yellow at the base, with a rosy purplish metallic spot on the costa, and a limbal shade in the yellow basal patch, which is bounded at about one-fourth by a dark reddish cupreous line, descending straight from the costa to the dorsum, its outer side shining rosy steel grey, succeeded by a band of rich cupreous, on the outer edge of which about the middle, is a conspicuous tuft of raised dark brownish fuscous scales; the median portion of the wing, except for a cupreous patch, on the costa rather beyond the middle, is shining rosy steel, blending into a cupreous patch, produced to the apex and containing some black and bright blue-metallic scales in its upper portion, and a strong patch of brilliant purple before the termen. The hindwings are shining, dark brownish cupreous.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Rectiostoma Becker in Heppner, [1982]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Setiostoma eusema". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
- ^ Neotropical Microlepidoptera XX: Revision of the Genus Setiostoma (Lepidoptera: Stenomidae)
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