Torodora caligula
Appearance
Torodora caligula | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lecithoceridae |
Genus: | Torodora |
Species: | T. caligula
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Binomial name | |
Torodora caligula (Meyrick, 1918)
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Torodora caligula is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found on Tagula Island in New Guinea.[1]
The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The forewings are fuscous, faintly tinged lilac and with a small flattened-triangular whitish spot on the costa at three-fourths, where a slightly curved fine indented whitish line (sometimes almost obsolete) runs to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are grey, in males with a long whitish-yellowish hair-pencil from the base lying along the costa. The costal edge of the wing is dark fuscous towards the middle.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Markku Savela. "Torodora Meyrick, 1894". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (4): 104 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.