Lecithocera fornacalis

Lecithocera fornacalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Lecithoceridae
Genus:Lecithocera
Species: L. fornacalis
Binomial name
Lecithocera fornacalis
(Meyrick, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Brachmia fornacalis Meyrick, 1911

Lecithocera fornacalis is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1911. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is 17–19 mm. The forewings are rather dark purplish-fuscous, in males lighter in the disc. The stigmata are represented by blackish-fuscous spots, the first discal small and roundish, the plical beneath it, larger and irregular, these two edged with whitish-ochreous posteriorly and sometimes confluent, the second discal represented by two small transversely placed spots, connected and upper edged laterally with whitish-ochreous. In males, there is a distinct whitish-ochreous slightly curved transverse line at four-fifths, dilated on the costa, indented above the middle, in females represented by a costal spot only. The hindwings are fuscous.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Lecithocera". funet.fi. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. ↑ J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 20 (3): 719


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.