Sabatinca calliarcha facts for kids

Sabatinca calliarcha is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is known from New Zealand.

Adults were found in December.

Original description

Wingspan 12 millimetres (0.47 in) for males. Head light bronzy-ochreous, hairs extremely long. Antennae pale ochreous, ringed with dark fuscous. Thorax clothed with long, bronzy-ochreous hairs, beneath which is a white bent stripe on each side of back. Abdomen blackish, apex ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate-ovate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; yellow; dorsum suffused with ferrugineous-brown, with a few black scales on edge; four golden-whitish streaks from costa between base and 2/3 converging towards posterior half of dorsum, first edged posteriorly with ferrugineous-brown mixed with indigo-black, hardly reaching dorsum, other three margined at both sides with ferrugineous-brown streaks and on costa with black, second and fourth reaching dorsum, third reaching about half across the wing; posterior area ferrugineous-brownish somewhat mixed with pale yellowish, with an irregular black dot in disc at 3/4, and four black dots on costa edged beneath with golden-whitish; a thick black streak lying along termen from near apex to tornus, edged with ochreous-yellowish and interrupted to form a long upper and short lower portion, upper portion including two golden-metallic terminal dots: cilia light ochreous-yellowish, with a violet-coppery basal line edged externally with grey. Hindwings deep purple, disc and veins blackish; cilia blackish-grey.

Images for kids

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  Male Sabatinca calliarcha illustrated by George Hudson