Tirathaba cissinobaphes

Tirathaba cissinobaphes is a species of moth of the family Pyralidae.[2][3] It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1906. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[4][1][5]

Tirathaba cissinobaphes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Tirathaba
Species:
T. cissinobaphes
Binomial name
Tirathaba cissinobaphes
(Turner, 1906)[1]
Synonyms
  • Mellissoblaptes cissinobaphes Turner, 1906
  • Aphomia astericta Turner, 1937

The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are ochreous whitish, mixed with dark fuscous and reddish fuscous, in the posterior part of the disc, the dark scales form lines along the veins. There is a large oval green suffusion on the dorsum from one-fifth nearly to the tornus, reaching nearly to the middle of the disc, and there is a slight green suffusion at the apex, as well as a series of minute dark-fuscous dots on the termen and apical fourth of the costa. The hindwings are dull ochreous, the apical fourth suffused with dull greenish.[6]

References
  1. "Tirathaba Walker, 1864" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
  2. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Tirathaba cissinobaphes (Turner 1906)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on November 9, 2018.
  3. GBIF. "Tirathaba cissinobaphes - Checklist View". www.gbif.org.
  4. "Tirathaba cissinobaphes - Discover Life". www.discoverlife.org.
  5. "Tirathaba cissinobaphes". insecta.pro.
  6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 19 (2): 90


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