Choreutis porphyratma

Choreutis porphyratma is a moth in the family Choreutidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found on New Guinea.[1]

Choreutis porphyratma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Choreutidae
Genus:	Choreutis
Species:	C. porphyratma
Binomial name
Choreutis porphyratma (Meyrick, 1930)
Synonyms
Simaethis porphyratma Meyrick, 1930

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are bright chestnut brown, the basal area orange ochreous sprinkled with white and there are two rather irregular fasciae of white irroration (sprinkles), the first attenuated and forming a small white spot on the costa, the second bisected towards the costa by a line of ground colour and forming two such spots, both in the disc suffused with purplish and thinly sprinkled with dark fuscous, the first antemedian, slightly excurved, preceded on the costa by a small dark purple-fuscous spot, the second from two-thirds of the costa to before the tornus, more excurved, the inner edge contorted in the disc, between these some purplish and dark fuscous suffusion in the disc. There is a subterminal shade of white irroration on the costal half. The hindwings are dark fuscous with an elongate-triangular orange discal patch extending from the base to two-thirds, separated by a brownish-orange transverse blotch with two spots of dark fuscous suffusion from a narrow orange terminal fascia attenuated to the apex. A broader light orange fascia mixed grey irroration and suffusion is found along the dorsum.[2]

References

1. "Choreutidae.lifedesks.org". Archived from the original on 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
2. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4: 5.