''Duomitus'' is a

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genus in the family Cossidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. Its only species, ''Duomitus ceramicus'', described by Francis Walker in 1865, is found in

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in China and from southern

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, Ceram and

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Description

Palpi are minute. Antennae of male with proximal half bipectinate (comb like on both sides), the distal half is simple, wholly simple in female. Legs without spurs. Wings are long and narrow. Forewing with very large areole. Vein 11 given off from 10. Hindwing with no bar between veins 7 and 8, veins 4 and 5 given off separately. The fork of the veinlets in the cell of both wings are broad.

Former species

* '' Duomitus fuscipans'' Hampson, 1892

References

* , 2004: Cossidae of Thailand. Part 1. (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). ''Atalanta'' 35 (3-4): 335–351. * , 2009: The Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera:Cossidae) of Vietnam. ''Entomofauna'' Supplement 16: 11–32.

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* Zeuzerinae Moths described in 1865 Monotypic moth genera Moths of Asia Cossidae genera {{Zeuzerinae-stub