Image of Blasticorhinus decernens Walker ♂
Image of Blasticorhinus decernens Walker ♂

Blasticorhinus decernens Walker

Toxocampa decernens Walker, 1864, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 79.

Toxocampa obliterans Walker, 1864, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 79.

Blasticorhinus decernens Walker; Holloway, 1976: 36.

Diagnosis

This is a medium brownish grey species, the forewing with transverse variegation of the grey as well as fine but irregular dark lines. Males may have a white dot in the reniform area whereas females have it larger and black. The most distinctive feature is a fine white arc, concave distad, opposite the greatest curvature of the distal margin; the arc is lined with black that grades away to dark grey basad.

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