Acanthopsyche bipars
| Acanthopsyche bipars | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Psychidae |
| Genus: | Acanthopsyche |
| Species: | A. bipars |
| Binomial name | |
| Acanthopsyche bipars (Walker, 1865) | |
| Synonyms | |
Acanthopsyche bipars is a bagworm moth of the genus Acanthopsyche originally described as Perina bipars by Walker in 1868 using a specimen form India.[1]
Description
[edit]Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with white hairs. Fore wing hyaline, the basal area smoky black; veins and margins narrowly black. Hind wing with the basal two-thirds smoky black; marginal area hyaline; the veins and margins narrowly black. Size 18–28mm.[3]
Ecology
[edit]Recorded feeding on tea in Sikkim and apple leaves in Shillong.[4]
Distribution
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum : British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". Internet Archive. 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
- 1 2 3 "Acanthopsyche bipars Walker, 1865". GBIF. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
- 1 2 Blanford, W. T.; Blanford, W. T.; Hampson, George Francis; Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical (1892). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths - Vol. I. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 293–293.
- ↑ Entomological Meeting (Pusa, India) (1917). Report of the proceedings of the Entomological Meeting. Vol. 1. Superintendent government printing, India.
- ↑ "XV. Lepidoptera Heterocera from Northern China, Japan, and Corea. By John Henry Leech, B.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 46. The Society: 261--379. 1898. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1898.tb02377.x.