Synchalara minax

Synchalara minax is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1907. It is found in India (Assam).[1]

Synchalara minax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Xyloryctidae
Genus:
Synchalara
Species:
S. minax
Binomial name
Synchalara minax
(Meyrick, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Agriophara minax Meyrick, 1907

The wingspan is 22–25 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous tinged with brownish and irrorated with fuscous. The basal fourth of the costa suffused with dark fuscous. There is a very indistinct irregular line of fuscous suffusion from the costa at one-fourth to the dorsum before the middle. There is a broad oblique fascia of dark fuscous suffusion, sharply defined and pale-edged anteriorly, very undefined posteriorly, from the costa about the middle, reaching more than half across the wing. A suffused fuscous curved line is found from the costa about three-fourths, almost obsolete on the dorsal half. There is also a marginal row of blackish dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are pale grey.[2]

References
  1. Synchalara at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 18: 151


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