Canucha curvaria is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1866.[1] It is found on Misool Island in New Guinea and on the Solomon Islands.[2]
| Canucha curvaria | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Drepanidae |
| Genus: | Canucha |
| Species: | C. curvaria
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| Binomial name | |
| Canucha curvaria Walker, 1866
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Adults are pale ochreous, the wings with indistinct ochreous specks and with some more conspicuous black specks, mostly along the exterior border. The veins are whitish and there is a whitish undulating line from near the tips of the forewings to a little beyond the middle of the interior border of the hindwings.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, George; et al. (February 2005). "Scientific name search". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Canucha curvaria Walker, 1866". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
- ^ List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 35: 1754
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