Symmerista inbioi is a moth in the family Notodontidae first described by Isidro A. Chacón in 2014. It has been collected between 1,250 and 2,700 meters in highland cloud forests of the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica.
| Symmerista inbioi | |
|---|---|
_ventral_(right).jpg)
| |
| Male dorsal (left) and ventral views | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Genus: | Symmerista |
| Species: | S. inbioi
|
| Binomial name | |
| Symmerista inbioi Chacón, 2014
| |
The length of the forewings 16.42–19.44 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is light brown with a black reniform spot. There is a uniform, long, thin, creamy-white band from the reniform spot to the apex and the costal margin is black. The hindwings are dirty beige.
Etymology
editThe species is named for the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) in recognition of its 25 years of support for developing an understanding of the biodiversity of Costa Rica and exporting that understanding to the nation and the world.[1]
References
edit
- ^ Chacón, I.A.; Janzen, D.H.; Hallwachs, W. 2014: Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica. ZooKeys, 421: 39-63. doi:10.3897/zookeys.421.6342
This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.
 | This article on a moth of the family Notodontidae is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |