Species Toxonprucha psegmapteryx - Hodges#8676

8676

Toxonprucha psegmapteryx (Dyar, 1913)

Matigramma psegmapteryx Dyar, 1913

Elousa psegmapteryx

Female WS 32 mm

Soft bluish gray, dark in tone; lines blackish, wavy, not contrasted, forming about ten dark specks along the costa; inner and median lines slender, waved; a dot toward base of cell; reniform a large, kidney-shaped pale area; outer line a little more distinct than the other, edging the pale reniform, broken below but joined by a line from costa within reniform; three wavy lines between reniform and margin, the inner one shaded and forming an enlargement below vein 2; a waved terminal dark line; fringe crossed by light streaks. Hind wing of the same color as fore wing, crossed by seven indistinct waved dark lines, the subterminal one a little the most distinct and well scalloped; fringe as on fore wing. (Dyar, 1913)

Genitalia:

Southwest Texas - Currently only reported in the counties of Hidalgo, Uvalde and Edwards.

Type locality: Cerritos, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

South Texas brush and Hill country

Unknown, some species are suspicioned to feed on Acacia.

Toxonprucha volucris

Dyar, H.G., 1913. Descriptions of new Lepidoptera, chiefly from Mexico. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 44(1951): 301.

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