Narthecoceros xylodes

Narthecoceros xylodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Narthecoceros
Species:	N. xylodes
Binomial name
Narthecoceros xylodes Meyrick, 1906

Narthecoceros xylodes is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found in Sri Lanka. ^[1]

The wingspan is 20–21 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous, irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous and with a moderate dark fuscous suffusion along the costa from before the middle to the apex, and the dorsal half posteriorly more or less suffused with dark fuscous irroration, the space between these sometimes forming an undefined pale streak. The stigmata are undefined and dark fuscous, with the plical very obliquely before the first discal. There are undefined cloudy dark fuscous dots along the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are rather dark fuscous. ^[2]

References

1. Savela, Markku, ed. (December 2, 2013). "Narthecoceros xylodes Meyrick, 1906". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 17 (1): 148. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .