Mastigophorus is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae described by Poey in 1832.
Mastigophorus is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae described by Poey in 1832.
==Description== Male with palpi with first joint upcurved at base, then porrect (extending forward) extremely long and fringed with hair above. Second joint bent back at an acute angle to above vertex of head. Third joint is a flattened process with a tuft of long hair from its base. Antennae with long bristles and cilia. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia slightly hairy. Forewings with slightly acute apex. Hindwings with vein 5 from near lower angle of cell.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).