Lecithocera paroena

Lecithocera paroena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Lecithocera
Species: L. paroena
Binomial name
Lecithocera paroena
(Meyrick, 1906)
Synonyms
  • Macrotoma paroena Meyrick, 1906

Lecithocera paroena is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1906. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is 23-25 mm. The forewings are light brownish-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled with pale brownish and a few black scales. There is a minute black subcostal dot near the base. The discal stigmata are small, cloudy and dark brown, the first resting on a transverse cloudy purple-fuscous mark beneath it, between the first and the second a cloudy fuscous dot in the disc rather above them. There is also a transverse purple-brownish fascia about three-fourths, somewhat angulated in the middle, faint towards the costa, stronger and much darker on the dorsal half. The hindwings are light fuscous, ochreous-tinged.[2]

References

  1. "Lecithocera". funet.fi. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 17 (1): 148


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