Chalcidica minea is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, the Moluccas, Papua New Guinea, Queensland and on the Solomon Islands.[1] The habitat consists of lowland rainforests.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cossidae |
| Genus: | Chalcidica |
| Species: | C. minea
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| Chalcidica minea (Cramer, 1779)
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Adults have red wings with blue-black patches.
References
edit- ^ "The Goat Moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) of Papua Indonesia". Archived from the original on 2014-07-17. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
- ^ The Moths of Borneo
- Yakovlev, R.V., 2004: Cossidae of Thailand. Part 1. (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Atalanta 35 (3-4): 335-351.
- Yakovlev, R.V. & T.J. Witt, 2009: The Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera:Cossidae) of Vietnam. Entomofauna Supplement 16: 11-32.
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog