Timyra crassella

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Timyra crassella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Timyra
Species:
T. crassella
Binomial name
Timyra crassella
Synonyms
  • Harpella crassellaFelder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Timyra spheniasMeyrick, 1905

Timyra crassella is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Cajetan Felder, Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875. It is found in Sri Lanka. [1]

The wingspan is 25–28 mm. The forewings are purplish fuscous, irregularly irrorated (sprinkled) with dark fuscous, sometimes posteriorly sprinkled with whitish ochreous. There is a transverse elongate-triangular ochreous-yellow blotch beyond the middle, the apex downwards, more or less nearly touching both margins. The hindwings are pale ochreous yellowish, the termen in females narrowly suffused irregularly with fuscous, in males only at the apex and towards the tornus. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Timyra Walker, 1864". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ Description of Timyra sphenias in Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 596 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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