Nematochares

Nematochares is a monotypic moth genus in the family Depressariidae. Its only species, Nematochares citraulax, is found in Brazil. Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1931.[1]

Nematochares
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Nematochares

Meyrick, 1931
Species:
N. citraulax
Binomial name
Nematochares citraulax
Meyrick, 1931

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are dark purplish with a rounded orange basal spot, and beyond this on the costa is a narrow attenuated pale yellow streak to three-fourths, terminated basally by a small dark purple spot and out near the base by another. There are some pale greenish-yellow longitudinal streaks, one above the middle from one-fifth of the wing to the end of the cell, two from just beyond the end of the cell to the costa before the apex and the middle of the termen respectively, one from the basal spot below the middle is curved to the termen above the tornus. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]

References
  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (March 26, 2014). "Nematochares Meyrick, 1931". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4 (2-4): 83.


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