Dicnecidia cataclasta

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Dicnecidia cataclasta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tortricidae
Genus:
Dicnecidia
Species:
D. cataclasta
Binomial name
Dicnecidia cataclasta
Diakonoff, 1982

Dicnecidia cataclasta is a moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1982. [1] It is found in Sri Lanka. [2] [3]

The specific name cataclasta is derived from Greek, meaning "broken in pieces". [4]

Description

Males have a wingspan of 13.5 mm (0.53 in). The head and thorax are pale tawny with dark brownish-grey spots. The antennae are brownish grey with short cilia. The pedipalps are pale tawny. The thorax has four transverse, irregular dark brownish-grey bands. The abdomen is a lighter brownish grey. The forewings are pale orange to tawny with an oblong to almost ovate shape. The forewing costa are curved and the apex is obtusely rectangular. The forewings have a basal patch with four dark brown to grey wedge-shaped spots on the costal edge. The forewing has an irregular, partly interrupted median or supramedian dark brown horizontal streak. The apical part of the forewing is a slightly brighter tawny orange with a silvery gloss. The forewing cilia are dark grey with a black basal band. The hindwings are dark brownish grey with a bronze gloss. The hindwing cilia are brownish grey with a darker subbasal band and a pale ochre basal line. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Species Details: Dicnecidia cataclasta Diakonoff, 1982". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 June 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. ↑ "Dicnecidia cataclasta holotype". Tortricid.net. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  4. 1 2 Diakonoff, Alexey (1982). "On a collection of some families of Microlepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen (193). ISBN   978-90-04-06896-4 . Retrieved 28 June 2018.


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