Phanoschista
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Genus: | Phanoschista Meyrick, 1925
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Species: | P. meryntis
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Phanoschista meryntis (Meyrick, 1908)
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Phanoschista is a genus of moths in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Phanoschista meryntis, which is found in southern India.[1]
The wingspan is 17–19 mm. The forewings are bronzy-fuscous with bluish-leaden reflections and with the basal third irregularly streaked longitudinally with yellowish, with dark shining purplish-fuscous costal and purple-blackish subcostal streaks, and lines of blackish scales between the yellowish streaks. There is a slender oblique pale yellowish median fascia, yellower posteriorly and the posterior half of the wing is streaked with ochreous-yellowish on the veins, the interspaces shining leaden-metallic. The hindwings are grey, in males broadly suffused with whitish-ochreous-yellowish in the disc, with a submedian groove containing an expansible pencil of long pale yellowish hairs.[2]
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