Lecithocera compsophila

Lecithocera compsophila
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Lecithocera
Species: L. compsophila
Binomial name
Lecithocera compsophila
(Meyrick, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Brachmia compsophila Meyrick, 1911

Lecithocera compsophila is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1911. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is 13-17 mm. The forewings are light ochreous-brown or sometimes fuscous, somewhat infuscated or darker-suffused posteriorly. There are traces of a white oblique strigula from the costa before the middle, which is sometimes obsolete. The stigmata are faintly darker, the plical rather obliquely beyond the first discal, the second discal forming a transverse mark, but all sometimes quite obsolete. A fine oblique white strigula is found from the costa at three-fourths, where a faint angulated whitish line proceeds to the tornus. There is also a black apical dot, more or less edged with white above and beneath, as well as an interrupted blackish terminal line. The hindwings are fuscous, sometimes paler towards the base.[2]

References

  1. "Lecithocera". funet.fi. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 20 (3): 709


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