Biology:Torodora pellax

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Short description: Species of moth

Torodora pellax
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Torodora
Species:
T. pellax
Binomial name
Torodora pellax
(Meyrick, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Brachmia pellax Meyrick, 1911

Torodora pellax is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found in Assam, India .[1]

The wingspan is 16–20 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous, with the stigmata cloudy and blackish fuscous, the plical beneath the first discal, sometimes suffused with it into an undefined cloudy blotch, the second discal forming a transverse somewhat 8-shaped mark. There is a small cloudy ochreous-whitish spot on the costa at four-fifths, where a slightly curved obscure ochreous-whitish line runs to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References

  1. Markku Savela. "Torodora Meyrick, 1894". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/lecithoceridae/torodorinae/torodora/. Retrieved 2016-01-28. 
  2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 20 (3): 713 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Wikidata ☰ Q14497341 entry