Epichostis melanocona

Epichostis melanocona is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka.^[1]

The wingspan is 13-17 mm. The forewings are light violet-fuscous, the costa suffused with pale ochreous except towards the apex. There is a variable transverse or subtriangular blackish blotch on the dorsum before the middle, edged with whitish-yellow, reaching nearly three-fourths across the wing. The second discal stigma is black and moderate, edged with whitish-ochreous. There is a transverse streak of blackish suffusion from five-sixths of the costa to before the tornus, becoming obsolete dorsally, curved inwards on the upper half. There is an interrupted blackish terminal line. The hindwings are pale grey.^[2][3][4] It is of the Arthropoda Phylum of the Insecta Class in Lepidopetera Order of Epichostis Genus.

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