Lecithocera grammophanes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Lecithocera
Species:
L. grammophanes
Binomial name
Lecithocera grammophanes
Meyrick, 1926

Lecithocera grammophanes is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1926. It is found on Borneo.[1]

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with costal, median, and subdorsal blue-leaden-metallic streaks from the base to one-fourth, the spaces between these suffused with orange. Beyond these is a narrow straight fascia of ground colour, edged posteriorly by a slender orange line followed by a blue-leaden-metallic median band dilated dorsally. The second discal stigma forms a transverse pear shaped blackish spot margined orange and there is an orange costal streak from the middle to five-sixths, anteriorly with a small dark fuscous spot followed by three approximated dots, beneath this a blue-leaden-metallic streak from the discal spot to its extremity. There are blue-leaden-metallic spots occupying the apex and tornus, almost meeting on the termen. The ground colour on the posterior two-thirds of the wing consists of suffusedly mixed orange linear scales and the terminal edge is blackish. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (June 9, 2020). "Lecithocera grammophanes Meyrick, 1926". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ The Sarawak Museum Journal. 3: 158.


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