Mecynarcha is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Mecynarcha apicalis, which is found in Brazil (Lower Amazons).
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Tribe: | Eurrhypini |
| Genus: | Mecynarcha Munroe, 1974[1] |
| Species: | M. apicalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Mecynarcha apicalis (Hampson, 1899)
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The wingspan is about 28 mm. The forewings are yellow-brown, suffused with ferruginous red and irrorated and suffused with fuscous. There is a marginal series of black specks. The hindwings are hyaline yellow, the veins streaked with fuscous and with a fuscous marginal band.[2]
References edit
- ^ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
- ^ Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1899: 224
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