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Typhonia bimaculata

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ7978301 ↗
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Typhonia bimaculata is a species of bagworm moth native to Madagascar.

The female has a wingspan of 33 mm, length of the forewings: 16 mm.

Forewings have nine veins, of light brown with a large dark spot in the middle.

Hindwings are darker than the forewings and of shining brown grey.

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This entry incorporates text from “Typhonia bimaculata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.