Epimactis spasmodes

Epimactis spasmodes is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in southern India.[1]

Epimactis spasmodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lecithoceridae
Genus:
Epimactis
Species:
E. spasmodes
Binomial name
Epimactis spasmodes
Meyrick, 1914

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are whitish fuscous with the costal edge whitish ochreous and with a suffused dark fuscous wedge-shaped spot along the base of the dorsum. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical beyond the first discal. There is a fuscous shade from four-fifths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, angulated inwards to touch the second discal. A strongly outwards-curved series of cloudy dark-fuscous dots is found from beneath the costa at two-thirds to the dorsum before the tornus and there is also a series of cloudy dark-fuscous dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are pale whitish grey ochreous.[2]

References
  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (January 8, 2017). "Epimactis spasmodes Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (4): 779.


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