Dinochares conotoma
| Dinochares conotoma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lecithoceridae |
| Genus: | Dinochares |
| Species: | D. conotoma |
| Binomial name | |
| Dinochares conotoma (Meyrick, 1908) | |
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Dinochares conotoma is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]
The wingspan is 14-17 mm. The forewings are orange with a small dark purplish-leaden fuscous basal-patch and two large oval bluish-leaden-metallic spots in the disc, the first towards the costa before the middle, the second towards the dorsum beyond the middle. There is a dark purplish-leaden-fuscous elongate semi-oval blotch extending along the dorsum from near the basal patch to the middle and a bronzy patch, anteriorly edged with dark fuscous suffusion, occupying the apical two-fifths of the wing except a narrow streak of ground colour along the costa almost to the apex, the anterior edge acutely indented in the middle. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous in males, posteriorly suffused with light grey, with a submedian groove containing an expansible pencil of very long whitish-yellowish hairs. The hindwings of the females are grey.[2]
References
- ↑ "Dinochares". nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
- ↑ J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 18 (2): 453