Sychnochlaena

Sychnochlaena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Subfamily: Tortricinae
Genus: Sychnochlaena
Diakonoff, 1982
Species: S. megalorhis
Binomial name
Sychnochlaena megalorhis
Diakonoff, 1982

Sychnochlaena is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tortricidae.[1] It contains only one species, Sychnochlaena megalorhis, which is found in Sri Lanka.[2]

Description

Wingspan of adult female is 14.5 mm. Head and palpus light tawny. Palpus long and porrect. Antennae subsernilate in female. Antenna light tawny. Thorax deep tawny with a posterior large, erect, blackish tuft. Abdomen glossy gray. Thorax with a large erect posterior crest. In fore wing, anterior half is tawny-grayish with olive suffusion. Costa with slender, vertical dark lines. There are two fuscous spots in cell. Cilia pale orange at apex and fuscous in tornus. Hind wings bronze-grayish. They are semi-pellucent, becoming whitish and more transparent basally. Cilia dark bronze-fuscous, with a pale basal band.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Baixeras, J.; Brown, J. W. & Gilligan, T. M. "Online World Catalogue of the Tortricidae". Tortricidae.com. Retrieved January 20, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Academia. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "ON A COLLECTION OF SOME FAMILIES OF MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA FROM SRI LANKA (CEYLON)". repository. Retrieved 28 July 2018.


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