Heteralcis palathodes

Heteralcis palathodes is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

Heteralcis palathodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lecithoceridae
Genus:
Heteralcis
Species:
H. palathodes
Binomial name
Heteralcis palathodes
(Meyrick, 1906)
Synonyms
  • Timyra palathodes Meyrick, 1906

The wingspan is 14–16 mm. The forewings are ochreous yellow with small dark fuscous spots on the costa at and near the base, and near the base of the dorsum. There are three irregular obscure brownish-ochreous fasciae at one-fourth, the middle, and three-fourths, dilated in the disc, and a similar transverse line before the second, sometimes mostly confluent with it, the third sometimes suffused with fuscous. The hindwings are dark grey in males, with the apex whitish ochreous, with a subdorsal groove enclosing a long ochreous-yellowish hair-pencil. The hindwings of the females are grey, with the apex and upper part of the termen suffused with whitish ochreous.[2]

References
  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (April 30, 2016). "Heteralcis palathodes (Meyrick, 1906)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 17 (1): 144.


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