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Veiled Ones · Sheet-wearers

Velatiformes : Linteovelidae

Wing-spread Sheet-wearer

Linteovelum expansum

ヒロゲシキフカブリ

The type species of its family. It wears a white sheet over its head and spreads the corners like wings. Only its face peeks through a gap in the cloth; no one has ever seen what is inside.

Locality

Kiso-gun, Nagano Pref., Japan: in the bedding closet of an old family house

Collected

2.XI.1984 Hikaru Hongu leg.

Determined

21.II.2008 Toshiro Tsuzura det.