Bellulia bibella
Encyclopedia
Bellulia bibella is a moth
of the Micronoctuidae
family. It is known from Yunnan
in China
.
The wingspan
is 11–13 mm. The forewings are broad. The head, thorax and the forewings have a brownish-grey ground colour. The antemedial, postmedial and subterminal lines are prominently broad and black, although the terminal line is narrow and marked by black intervenal dots. The reniform stigma is yellow and outlined with black. The hindwings are unicolorous black-brown with a discal spot. The fringes on both wings are dark grey. The underside on both wings is unicolorous brown.
The biotope is dominated by many herbaceous plants and bushes, close to a brook. All specimens were captured at light in the middle of September.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
of the Micronoctuidae
Micronoctuidae
The Micronoctuidae are a family of moths that includes about 400 described species. The family was first described in 2005.Micronoctua karsholti is the smallest of all species in the Noctuoidea superfamily.-Taxonomic History:...
family. It is known from Yunnan
Yunnan
Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...
in China
China
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.
The wingspan
Wingspan
The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...
is 11–13 mm. The forewings are broad. The head, thorax and the forewings have a brownish-grey ground colour. The antemedial, postmedial and subterminal lines are prominently broad and black, although the terminal line is narrow and marked by black intervenal dots. The reniform stigma is yellow and outlined with black. The hindwings are unicolorous black-brown with a discal spot. The fringes on both wings are dark grey. The underside on both wings is unicolorous brown.
The biotope is dominated by many herbaceous plants and bushes, close to a brook. All specimens were captured at light in the middle of September.