Sabatinca lucilia facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sabatinca lucilia
Scientific classification

Sabatinca lucilia is a moth of the family Micropterigidae that is endemic to New Zealand.

The wingspan is about 12 millimetres (0.47 in). Adults were found on a sunny moss-covered clay bank. They are on wing in December and January and sometimes come to electric light.

Original description

Head, face, and palpi covered with long bronze-brown hair. Antennae purplish tending to brown at tips. Thorax brown, densely covered with long brown hair. Abdomen grey-blackish along sides. Legs ochreous tinged with grey-blackish. Forewings ovate-lanceolate, costa bent abruptly near base, arched, apex less acute than in incongruella; basal area to nearly 1/3 ochreous suffused with ruby banded by abrupt black transverse line; an ochreous-grey band slightly suffused with ruby reaching to nearly 1/2, widening on dorsum; a dark fascia bordered blackish-grey, constricted both sides at middle and narrowed on anal margin; at 2/3 another light grey band slightly tinged with orange but broken in centre by longitudinal blackish stripe; a transverse blackish-bordered ochreus band, beyond which to apex light grey slightly tinged with orange; cilia ochreous with dark-greyish-brown bars in continuation of the dark markings on the wings. Hindwings dark grey suffused with violet, brighter towards apex; cilia dark grey with a few orange hairs.

Images for kids

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  S. lucilia, illustrated by George Hudson

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  Hindwing venation of Sabatinca lucilia