| Phanoschista | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lecithoceridae |
| Genus: | Phanoschista Meyrick, 1925 |
| Species: | P. meryntis |
| Binomial name | |
| Phanoschista meryntis (Meyrick, 1908) | |
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Phanoschista is a genus of moths in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Phanoschista meryntis, which is found in southern India. [1]
The wingspan is 17–19 mm. The forewings are bronzy-fuscous with bluish-leaden reflections and with the basal third irregularly streaked longitudinally with yellowish, with dark shining purplish-fuscous costal and purple-blackish subcostal streaks, and lines of blackish scales between the yellowish streaks. There is a slender oblique pale yellowish median fascia, yellower posteriorly and the posterior half of the wing is streaked with ochreous-yellowish on the veins, the interspaces shining leaden-metallic. The hindwings are grey, in males broadly suffused with whitish-ochreous-yellowish in the disc, with a submedian groove containing an expansible pencil of long pale yellowish hairs. [2]
