Heteralcis holocona

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Heteralcis holocona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lecithoceridae
Genus:
Heteralcis
Species:
H. holocona
Binomial name
Heteralcis holocona
(Meyrick, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Timyra holoconaMeyrick, 1908

Heteralcis holocona is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka. [1]

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, faintly purplish tinged and with a yellowish basal dot. There are two irregular inwardly oblique pale yellowish transverse lines before and beyond one-fourth and a triangular ochreous-yellow blotch on the costa beyond the middle, reaching more than halfway across the wing, as well as a yellow dot in the disc beyond the apex of this. The hindwings are dark fuscous, with a submedian groove containing an expansible pencil of very long whitish-ochreous hairs. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (April 30, 2016). "Heteralcis holocona (Meyrick, 1908)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  2. ↑ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 18 (2): 446.


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