update: 24.09.2022
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Pterophoridae
Pterophorinae / Platyptiliini
Michaelophorus nubilus
(FELDER & ROGENHOFER, 1875)
Cacao Plume Moth
Distribution / Verbreitung
Costa Rica, Colombia, Trinidad, Brazil
Original Description
Type locality: Colombia, Bogota
Remarks / Bemerkung
â The species is characterized by the dark brown colour of the forewing with a faint subterminal line on both lobes, a pale-encircled discal spot and the ventral part of the abdomen white.
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Michaelophorus nubilus
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