Thriambeutis hemicausta

Thriambeutis hemicausta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Yponomeutidae
Subfamily: Heliodinidae
Genus: Thriambeutis
Species: T. coryphaea
Binomial name
Thriambeutis hemicausta
Meyrick, 1910

Thriambeutis hemicausta is a species of moth of the family Heliodinidae. This species is known from the Solomons (Isabel island).

It has a wingspan of 21 mm. The forewings are reddish-orange with a purple-blackish apical patch occupying rather more than half the wing, the anterior edge irregular. The hindwings are reddish-orange with the apical half blackish, the division between these irregular.[1]

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