Deuterocopus honoratus Meyrick, 1921

Original description [1]

Deuterocopus honoratus, n. sp.

♂. 11 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen whity-brownish suffusedly irrorated blackish, margins of abdominal segments slightly marked white on dorsum, ventral surface snow-white with dark ante-median band. Forewings cleft firstly to 3/5, second segment cleft nearly to 1/4 from base; coppery-brownish suffusedly irrorated blackish ; a white dot on dorsum at 1/4 ; an oval white spot in disc before cleft, and small dorsal mark beneath and almost confluent with it; some scattered white scales indicating bars at 1/3 and 2/3 of first segment, and middle of other two : cilia dark grey, blackish spots edged by whitish patches at apex of each segment, ochreous-whitish patches on middle of lower mtirgin of first segment and on dorsum towards cleft. Hindwings dark fuscous, basal third light orange-fulvous ; cilia dark grey, third segment with black dorsal scaletooth before middle, and large black scale-projection occupying both sides of apical third.

Queensland, Brisbane, March (Dodd) ; 1 ex., Wals. Coll. (19403).

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