Loxotoma elegans
| Loxotoma elegans | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Loxotoma |
| Species: | L. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Loxotoma elegans Zeller, 1854 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Loxotoma elegans is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Zeller in 1854. It is found in Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, the Guianas, Brazil (Amazonas) and Bolivia.[1]
The wingspan is about 34 mm. The forewings are light yellow-brownish with the dorsum slenderly brown and the costal edge rosy-brown on the basal and apical fourths. There is a fine brown line from one-fourth of the costa towards two-fifths of the dorsum, but obsolete below the fold. A fine brown curved line is found from two-thirds of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus and there is a fine transverse-linear brown mark on the end of the cell, as well as a triangular black spot on the middle of the costa, its apex rounded and hardly reaching one-fourth across the wing. The termen is slenderly brownish. The hindwings are light crimson-rosy.[2]