Coleophora ogmotona

Coleophora ogmotona is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in Sri Lanka (western region, Puttalam) and south-western India (Dharwar plateau).

Coleophora ogmotona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Coleophoridae
Genus:
Coleophora
Species:
C. ogmotona
Binomial name
Coleophora ogmotona

The wingspan is about 8 mm. The head and palpi are fuscous-whitish. The antennae are stout towards the base and grey obscurely ringed with whitish. The thorax is fuscous, with four whitish longitudinal lines. The abdomen is grey. The forewings are elongate-lanceolate and fuscous, obscurely darker-sprinkled. The veins are marked by slender whitish lines. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References
  1. Catalogo Mundial Sistematico y de Distribucion de la Familia Coleophoridae Archived 2012-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. A Taxonomic Review of the Coleophoridae (Lepidoptera) of the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka Described by Edward Meyrick


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.