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Erebidae / Arctiinae
Lithosiini

Cloesia digna SCHAUS, 1911

Costa Rica
Type locality: CR: Sixola
Cloesia digna is an uncommon species found in the South of Costa Rica, between 100 and 1200m elevation.


C. digna is recognized by having the body and for ewings above dark metallic purplish-blue. Hindwings dark brown, thinly scaled, with somewhat semihyaline streaks on basal and median area, below discal cell. Androconial pouch on hindwing present.

MICHEL LAGUERRE et. al. (2023): Revision of the genus Cloesia Hampson, 1900: description of five new species and recombination of two species (Noctuoidea Erebidae Arctiinae Lithosiini) - Faunitaxys 11 - 47.
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