Lecithocera sophronopa

Lecithocera sophronopa is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1968. It is found on Luzon in the Philippines.[1]

Lecithocera sophronopa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Lecithocera
Species:
L. sophronopa
Binomial name
Lecithocera sophronopa
Diakonoff, [1968]

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous touched with creamy, strewn throughout with rather dense fuscous scales. The markings are dark fuscous. There is an ill-defined triangular small basal patch with a very inwards-oblique edge and obliterate lower third. A well-defined, somewhat irregular interrupted marginal narrow streak is found around more than the posterior fourth of the wing. The stigmata are irregular, about equal, the first discal beyond one-third of the wing, the plical below and somewhat before it, the second discal before two-thirds. The hindwings are fuscous, rather thinly scaled.[2]

References
  1. Savela, Markku. "Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer, 1853". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 257: 132


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