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Hyblaea

Hyblaea
Hyblaea constellata2.jpg
Hyblaea constellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hyblaeidae
Genus: Hyblaea
Fabricius, 1793
Synonyms
  • Aenigma Strecker, 1876
  • Nychophila Billberg, 1820

Hyblaea is a moth genus of the Hyblaeidae family.

Head very small. Palpi porrect and rostriform. Antennae minutely ciliated in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia clothed with long hairs and spineless. Fore wings with costa arched near base, with lobed inner margin. The cell open. Veins 6 to 9 arise from close to angle of cell. Hind wings with open cell. Vein 8 anastomosing with vein 7 to near middle of cell.

The genus consists of the following species:



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