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Phazaca

Phazaca
Dirades theclata.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Uraniidae
Subfamily: Epipleminae
Genus: Phazaca
Holloway, 1998
Species
  • Dirades Walker, 1866
  • Lobogethes Warren, 1896
  • Diradopsis Warren, 1898
  • Homoplexis Warren, 1907
  • Balantiucha Turner, 1911

Phazaca is a genus of moths in the Uraniidae family.

Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head. Antennae thickened and flattened in male. Fore wings broad. The outer margin evenly curved. Vein 5 from below the upper angle of cell and veins 6,7 and 8,9 stalked. vein 10 from cell. Hind wings usually with the outer margin produced to points at veins 4 and 7, slightly developed in male. Vein 5 from the middle of discocellulars. Veins 6 and 7 from angle of cell or shortly stalked. Male with a fold on inner area containing a tuft of long hair, veins 1b and 2 being distorted. Wings held more or less apart in repose.



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