Torodora arcifera

Torodora arcifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Torodora
Species: T. arcifera
Binomial name
Torodora arcifera
(Meyrick, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Brachmia arcifera Meyrick, 1907

Torodora arcifera is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1907. It is found in Bhutan.[1]

The wingspan is 14-15 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-bronzy-fuscous. The stigmata are blackish, the plical and first discal confluent, edged posteriorly by a slightly curved ochreous-whitish line from two-fifths of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, the second discal is obscurely edged with whitish and with an additional similar dot beneath it. There is an ochreous-whitish dot on the costa at four-fifths. The hindwings are fuscous.[2]

References

  1. "Torodora". nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  2. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 17 (3): 738


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