Psittacastis gaulica is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1909. It is found in Bolivia.[1]
| Psittacastis gaulica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Psittacastis |
| Species: | P. gaulica
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| Binomial name | |
| Psittacastis gaulica Meyrick, 1909
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The wingspan is 17–18 mm. The forewings are bronzy-ochreous brown, mostly concealed by mixed white and dark fuscous suffusion, indicating various irregular but very undefined markings. There is a white trapezoidal blotch on the costa before the middle, the outer edge very oblique, margined by a leaden-metallic streak. Beyond this are two very oblique parallel streaks from the costa, separated from it and from each other by fulvous interspaces, the first violet-leaden metallic, white on the costa, black-edged posteriorly, dilated downwards, terminating in an elongate-oval violet-leaden-metallic spot in the disc, the second white, terminating in the same spot. There is an inwardly oblique white strigula from the costa midway between this and the apex and a thick excurved pale bronzy-metallic transverse streak close before the lower part of the termen, its upper end preceded by a triangular blackish spot, the terminal area beyond this white containing a black mark at the base of the indentation and another between this and the apex of the tornal prominence, the terminal edge dark fuscous with a short projection between these two black marks. The hindwings are grey.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Psittacastis Meyrick, 1909" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ^ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1909 (1): 21
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