''Hirtocossus crucis'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family Cossidae. It is found in

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. This is a large heavy moth with a

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

of 70 mm. The frontwings are dull white, with 2 fine angulated lines crossing, the hindwings are uniformly dull grey.Kenrick, 1914a. ''New or little known Heterocera from Madagascar''. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1913(4):p.588, pls. 31–32

References

Cossinae Moths described in 1914 Moths of Madagascar Moths of Africa {{Cossinae-stub