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A NEW SPECIES OF ASTEROSCOPUS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John B. Smith
John B. Smith
Affiliation:
Rutgers College, N. J.
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Lederer characterizes Asteroscopus essentially as follows: Narrow-winged owlets, resembling Bombycids in the shaggy, loose vestiture. Palpi short, not exceeding the front, drooping. Tongue short and weak. Eyes naked, with bristly lashes. Antennæ comparatively long, with a tuft of hair at the base; in the male with short pectinations to the tip; in the female with sharp, ciliated angles to each joint. Thorax broad, convex, clothed with long, woolly hair. Abdomen shaggy, untufted. Body beneath and legs with dense woolly vestiture. Legs short, anterior tibia with a long claw at the tip.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , February 1899 , pp. 25 - 26
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1899

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