Acroclita sicaria

Acroclita sicaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tortricidae
Genus:	Acroclita
Species:	A. sicaria
Binomial name
	Acroclita sicaria; Diakonoff, 1982
Synonyms
	Heteroschistis sicaria Diakonoff, 1982;

Acroclita sicaria is a moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1982.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.[2][3]

Description

Adult male wingspan is 8.5 mm. Head light cinereous (ash grey). Vertex infuscated (darkened with a blackish tinge). Labial palp smooth scaled with slight bluish opalescence. Anterior half of thorax cinereous fuscous, whereas posterior half is pale ochreous with an interrupted black transverse band. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings oblong and narrow. Costa slightly curved. Apex rounded. Costal half of wing light cinereous with white lower half of wing. Anterior half of costa marked with irregular dark grey transverse and outwards-convex, oblique bands. There is a transverse jet-black spot at postmedian prominence of costa. Beyond the spot, the area is blackish with five short white marks. A white-ochreous marginal band runs along termen. Cilia dark grey with ochreous dusting. Hindwings and cilia light glossy fuscous grey.[4]

References

"Species Details: Heteroschistis sicaria Diakonoff, 1982". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
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.
"Acroclita sicaria male holotype". Tortricid.net. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
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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[1] "Species Details: Heteroschistis sicaria Diakonoff, 1982". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

[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] "Acroclita sicaria male holotype". Tortricid.net. Retrieved 28 July 2018.

[4] 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.