Lecithocera querula

Lecithocera querula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Lecithocera
Species: L. querula
Binomial name
Lecithocera querula
Meyrick, 1910

Lecithocera querula is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1910. It is found in Indonesia (Java).[1]

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are pale yellow-ochreous tinged with brownish, the basal and terminal areas and dorsal half irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous. The discal stigmata are moderate and dark fuscous. There is a slender somewhat oblique streak of darker irroration from the second to the dorsum. The hindwings are grey with a loose dorsal pencil of pale ochreous-yellowish hairs from the base.[2]

References

  1. "Lecithocera". funet.fi. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 : 449


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