Aproparia

Aproparia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lecithoceridae
Genus:	Aproparia; Gozmány, 1972
Species:	A. pselaphistis
Binomial name
	Aproparia pselaphistis; (Meyrick, 1910)
Synonyms
	Onebala pselaphistis Meyrick, 1910;

Aproparia is a monotypic genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Aproparia pselaphistis, which is found in India (Assam).^[1]

The wingspan is 14–18 mm. The forewings are light brownish-ochreous, more or less infuscated posteriorly. The stigmata are small, cloudy and fuscous, the plical rather beyond the first discal, an additional dot beneath the second discal. There is a faint curved fine ochreous-whitish line from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, more strongly marked towards the costa. The hindwings are grey, more or less tinged with whitish-ochreous.^[2]

References

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[2] J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 20 (2): 456 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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