Age onychistica

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Age onychistica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tortricidae
Genus:
Age
Species:
A. onychistica
Binomial name
Age onychistica
Diakonoff, 1982

Age onychistica is a moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1982. [1] It is found in Sri Lanka, [2] It is also found in Africa and Indonesia. [3]

Description

Sexes show slight dimorphism, with the female slightly larger than male. [4]

Adult male wingspan is 9 mm. Head and thorax dull, pale fulvous. Vertex slightly infuscated. Palpus creamy. Short antenna thickened and pubescent. Thorax dull pale fulvous. Apex with large round black scales. Meta thorax have lateral chestnut-colored fields. Abdomen pale fulvous, with creamy venter. Forewings oblong. Costa with round base. Apex prominent and round. Forewings light fulvous with grayish dusting. Costal base slightly thickened. Beyond costa, there are 7-8 white wedge-shaped marks. Cilia pale fulvous with a narrow white basal line. Hindwings pale grayish fuscous. Cilia pale fuscous with a darker sub-basal band and a pale basal line.

Adult female wingspan is 10 mm. Ground color similar to male. Forewing with more prominent apex. Termen deep concave below apex. Forewings are bright fulvous, with pink tinge. Costal pale marks short with more distinct dark brown small wedge-shaped dots. Cilia brighter fulvous. Hindwings golden ochreous with dark brown dusting. Cilia similar to male. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Species Details: Age onychistica Diakonoff, 1982". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 – via Academia.
  3. ↑ Agassiz, D. J.; Aarvik, L. (2014). "New Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from East Africa with an account of the tortricid fauna of acacia in the Kenyan Rift Valley". Zootaxa. 3861 (4): 369–397. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3861.4.7. PMID   25283417. S2CID   39407608.
  4. ↑ "Age onychistica paratype". The Insects of Papua Indonesia. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 193: 1–124 – via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
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