Sychnochlaena

Sychnochlaena is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the family Tortricidae first described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1982.[1] Its only species, Sychnochlaena megalorhis, described by the same author in the same year, is found in Sri Lanka.[2]

Sychnochlaena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tortricidae
Subfamily:
Tortricinae
Genus:
Sychnochlaena

Diakonoff, 1982
Species:
S. megalorhis
Binomial name
Sychnochlaena megalorhis
Diakonoff, 1982

Description

The wingspan of the adult female is 14.5 mm. Its head and palpus are light tawny. Palpus long and porrect (extending forward). Antennae subserrulate in female. Antenna light tawny. Thorax deep tawny with a posterior large, erect, blackish tuft. Abdomen glossy gray. Thorax with a large erect posterior crest. In forewing, anterior half is tawny grayish with olive suffusion. Costa with slender, vertical dark lines. There are two fuscous spots in cell. Cilia pale orange at apex and fuscous in tornus. Hindwings bronze grayish. They are semi-pellucent, becoming whitish and more transparent basally. Cilia dark bronze fuscous, with a pale basal band.[3]

See also

References
  1. Baixeras, J.; Brown, J. W. & Gilligan, T. M. "Online World Catalogue of the Tortricidae". Tortricid.net. Retrieved January 20, 2009.
  2. Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 – via Academia.
  3. Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 193: 1–124 – via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.


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