Lecithocera metacausta

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Lecithocera metacausta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Lecithocera
Species:
L. metacausta
Binomial name
Lecithocera metacausta
Meyrick, 1910 [1]
Synonyms
  • Lecithocera meyrickiGozmány, 1978 (preocc. Ghesquière, 1940)
  • Lecithocera parauliasGozmány, 1978

Lecithocera metacausta is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It is found in India (Assam, Himachal Pradesh), [2] Taiwan and Korea. [3]

The wingspan is 13–16 mm. The forewings are yellow-ochreous, suffusedly sprinkled with brown or dark fuscous and with the base of the costa more or less suffused with dark fuscous. The discal stigmata are dark fuscous, sometimes with a transverse mark of dark fuscous suffusion between the second discal and the dorsum. There is a dark fuscous patch along the termen from the apex, more or less narrowed downwards and not reaching the tornus. The hindwings are pale grey or in females sometimes grey. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ TaiBNET - Catalogue of Life of Taiwan
  2. ↑ "Lecithocera". funet.fi. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera) of Taiwan (I): Subfamily Lecithocerinae: Genera Homaloxestis Meyrick and Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer
  4. ↑ J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 20 (2): 446 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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