Phanoschista
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Suborder:
Glossata
Infraorder:
Heteroneura
(unranked):
Ditrysia
Superfamily:
Gelechioidea
Family:
Lecithoceridae
Genus:
Phanoschista

Meyrick, 1925
Species:
P. meryntis
Binomial name
Phanoschista meryntis
(Meyrick, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Tingentera meryntis Meyrick, 1908

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]

References

  1. ↑ funet.fi
  2. ↑ J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 18 (2): 455 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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