- Cyclotorna diplocentra
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Cyclotorna diplocentra Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Cyclotornidae Genus: Cyclotorna Species: C. diplocentra Binomial name Cyclotorna diplocentra
Turner, 1913Cyclotorna diplocentra is a moth of the Cyclotornidae family. It is found in Australia, including New South Wales and Queensland.
Original description
“ female 30 mm. Head, thorax, and legs brownish-fuscous, finely irrorated with whitish. Antennae fuscous. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Forewings elongate-oval, costa rather strongly arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded, dorsum strongly arched before middle; brownish-grey, finely irrorated with whitish, and with sparsely scattered dark fuscous scales; two roundish dark fuscous discal spots; first above 2/3 dorsum, second larger, beneath 2/3 costa; cilia grey, with some whitish irroration. Hindwings and cilia fuscous. Type in Coll. Turner. Q.: Brisbane; one specimen. ” —Original description by Alfred Jefferis Turner
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