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Timyra orthadia

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Timyra orthadia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Timyra
Species:
T. orthadia
Binomial name
Timyra orthadia
Meyrick, 1906

Timyra orthadia is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae, described by Edward Meyrick in 1906 from Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous with a narrow dark fuscous basal fascia and two broad rather dark fuscous fasciae at about one-third and two-thirds, the first somewhat narrowed toward the costa, the second rather oblique, more or less constricted in the disc, beneath dilated and confluent posteriorly with a broad dark fuscous suffusion or sprinkling in the disc.

Between these fasciae is an undefined oblique median line of dark fuscous sprinkles and a dark fuscous terminal streak, thickened at the apex. The hindwings are fuscous, in males with a broad median longitudinal ochreous-yellow band, including a deep central groove, and a subdorsal groove enclosing an ochreous-yellow hair-pencil from the base.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (December 30, 2014). "Timyra orthadia Meyrick, 1906". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  2. ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 17 (1): 145. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.