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| Genus: | Chaeopsestis
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| Species: | C. ludovicae
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| Chaeopsestis ludovicae Le Cerf, 1941
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Chaeopsestis is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the family Drepaninae first described by Ferdinand Le Cerf in 1941. [1] Its single species, Chaeopsestis ludovicae, was described in the same paper. [2] It is found in Vietnam, Thailand and the Chinese provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan. [3]
Adults are on wing from October to November. Adults drink the tears of several animals including humans ( lachryphagy). The moth attaches itself to the eyelid. It has also been recorded drinking sweat and fluids from the nose. [4]
References
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chaeopsestis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chaeopsestis ludovicae". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- ^ Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID 25947492.
- ^ Hans Bänziger (1992). "Remarkable new cases of moths drinking human tears in Thailand (Lepidoptera: Thyatiridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae)" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society. 40: 92–102.
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| Chaeopsestis | |
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| Genus: | Chaeopsestis
Le Cerf, 1941
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| Species: | C. ludovicae
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| Chaeopsestis ludovicae Le Cerf, 1941
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Chaeopsestis is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the family Drepaninae first described by Ferdinand Le Cerf in 1941. [1] Its single species, Chaeopsestis ludovicae, was described in the same paper. [2] It is found in Vietnam, Thailand and the Chinese provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan. [3]
Adults are on wing from October to November. Adults drink the tears of several animals including humans ( lachryphagy). The moth attaches itself to the eyelid. It has also been recorded drinking sweat and fluids from the nose. [4]
References
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chaeopsestis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chaeopsestis ludovicae". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- ^ Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID 25947492.
- ^ Hans Bänziger (1992). "Remarkable new cases of moths drinking human tears in Thailand (Lepidoptera: Thyatiridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae)" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society. 40: 92–102.
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