Tisis mendicella

Tisis mendicella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Tisis
Species: T. mendicella
Binomial name
Tisis mendicella
(Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Decuaria mendicella Walker, 1864
  • Timyra toreutis Meyrick, 1908

Tisis mendicella is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is 17—20 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with two or three short whitish streaks from the base and transverse lines of white irroration at one-fourth and one-third, partly marked with orange. There are three orange longitudinal streaks from about the middle to three-fourths, the third furcate posteriorly, separated by streaks of purplish-leaden suffusion. Veins 3, 4, and 7 to 10 are marked more or less completely with white streaks, 5 and 6 with orange streaks and there is a short white streak along the costa near the apex. The hindwings are dark fuscous, with a subdorsal groove enclosing a pencil of whitish-ochreous hairs.[2]

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