Bagdadia paroctas

Bagdadia paroctas is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913.[1] It is found in China (Zhejiang), Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India's Andaman Islands and Java, Indonesia.[2]

Bagdadia paroctas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Bagdadia
Species:	B. paroctas
Binomial name
Bagdadia paroctas (Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
Chelaria paroctas Meyrick, 1913 Hypatima paroctas Capidentalia paroctas

The wingspan is 13–14 mm. The forewings are grey, irrorated (sprinkled) with whitish and with a series of small ochreous-brown spots mixed with black along the costa, one before the middle rather larger. There is an ochreous-brown spot beneath the costa near the base, and some blackish irroration towards the base. A transverse series of three blackish marks is found at one-fifth, and another at one-fourth. An irregularly 8-shaped mark outlined with blackish is found in the disc at one-third, and another at two-thirds. There are some small ochreous-brownish spots between these, and a larger one in the disc beyond the second, as well as a blackish spot on the dorsum beneath the first, touching it. There is an ochreous-brown streak just before the termen, touching a terminal series of small blackish spots. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline (almost glass like) anteriorly, with the veins and termen dark fuscous.[3]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima paroctas". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
2. Savela, Markku (February 10, 2019). "Bagdadia paroctas (Meyrick, 1913)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 166.