Timyra dipsalea
Appearance
Timyra dipsalea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lecithoceridae |
Genus: | Timyra |
Species: | T. dipsalea
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Binomial name | |
Timyra dipsalea Meyrick, 1908
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Timyra dipsalea is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Assam, India.[1]
The wingspan is 17–19 mm. The forewings are fuscous, sprinkled with fuscous-whitish scales tipped with blackish and with a suffused whitish-ochreous streak along the dorsum. There are some raised scales in the disc near the base. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, towards the apex tinged with fuscous and with a subdorsal groove containing an expansible pencil of very long pale ochreous-yellowish hairs.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (December 30, 2014). "Timyra dipsalea Meyrick, 1908". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
- ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 18 (2): 446. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.