Bassarodes

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Bassarodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Xyloryctidae
Genus:
Bassarodes

Meyrick, 1910
Species:
B. siriaca
Binomial name
Bassarodes siriaca
Meyrick, 1910

Bassarodes siriaca is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae, and the only species in the genus Bassarodes. It was described by Meyrick in 1910 and is found on the Solomon Islands. [1]

The wingspan is 23–30 mm. The forewings of the males are pale yellowish, sometimes suffused with pale brownish on the veins and margins, with the second discal stigma dark brown, an oblique patch of brown suffusion between this and the apex, and sometimes a streak of dark brown suffusion along the fold curved upwards beneath the middle of the wing. The female forewings are pale ochreous suffusedly irrorated with dark brown, with a broad longitudinal median dark fuscous band, suffused and undefined towards the costa, the lower margin well-marked and pale-edged, curved downwards on the anterior half and upwards beyond the middle, terminating in the tornus. The hindwings of the males are light yellowish, sometimes sprinkled with fuscous towards the tornus. The hindwings of the females are fuscous. [2]

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