Doxogenes thoracias

Doxogenes thoracias is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

Doxogenes thoracias
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D. thoracias
Binomial name
Doxogenes thoracias
(Meyrick, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Tingentera thoracias Meyrick, 1908

The wingspan is 18–19 mm. The forewings are purplish-fuscous, the posterior half suffused with pale metallic golden-bronze and with an orange band occupying the basal third of the wing except a very small dark metallic bluish-leaden basal patch, the posterior edge strongly concave, produced along the costa as a slender streak almost to the apex. There is a light blue-leaden-metallic spot in the middle of this band, and its posterior edge margined in the disc with a blue-leaden-metallic streak. A small transverse-oval orange spot is found in the disc at three-fifths, sometimes connected with the dorsum by a patch of light yellowish suffusion almost confluent dorsally with the preceding band. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, with a rather broad pale orange costal streak of modified scales and a submedian groove containing an expansible pencil of very long pale orange hairs.[2]

References

  1. "Doxogenes". nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
  2. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 18 (2): 452


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