Ptochoryctis simbleuta
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| Ptochoryctis simbleuta Meyrick, 1907
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Ptochoryctis simbleuta is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1907. It is found India (Assam).[1]
The wingspan is 11–17 mm. The forewings are white, with some irregularly scattered black scales, especially in the disc. There is a patch of cloudy fuscous suffusion extending from the disc beyond the middle to the tornus and there is a pre-marginal series of black dots from four-fifths of the costa to the tornus. The hindwings are pale grey.
The larvae feed beneath a web covered with refuse and pieces of bark, on bark of shoots of the tea-plant, eating right through to the cambium, and thus killing the branch or plant. The larvae are brick-red.[2]
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