Chalcidica minea

Species of moth

Chalcidica minea

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Cossidae
Genus:  | Chalcidica
Species:  |

C. minea

Binomial name
Chalcidica minea

(Cramer, 1779)

Synonyms

* Phalaena (Bombyx) minea Cramer, 1779
* Xyleutes mineus
* Chalcidica mineus
* Phalaena hyphinoe Cramer, 1779
* Zeuzera viridicans Eschscholtz, 1821

Chalcidica minea is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, the Moluccas, Papua New Guinea, Queensland and on the Solomon Islands.[1] The habitat consists of lowland rainforests.[2]

Adults have red wings with blue-black patches.

## References

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1. ^ "The Goat Moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) of Papua Indonesia". Archived from the original on 2014-07-17. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
2. ^ The Moths of Borneo

* Yakovlev, R.V., 2004: Cossidae of Thailand. Part 1. (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Atalanta 35 (3-4): 335-351.
* Yakovlev, R.V. & T.J. Witt, 2009: The Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera:Cossidae) of Vietnam. Entomofauna Supplement 16: 11-32.
* Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Taxon identifiers

Chalcidica minea|

* Wikidata: Q18129848
* Wikispecies: Chalcidica minea
* CoL: 93X2N
* GBIF: 8130866
* LepIndex: 71377
* NCBI: 1555244

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