Eumenodora tetrachorda

Eumenodora tetrachorda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Xyloryctidae
Genus:	Eumenodora
Species:	E. tetrachorda
Binomial name
	Eumenodora tetrachorda; Meyrick, 1924

Eumenodora encrypta is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found in India.[1]

The wingspan is about 7 mm. The forewings are ochreous brownish with four narrow obscure suffused whitish longitudinal streaks (subcostal, discal, plical, and dorsal) from the base to about three-fourths, irrorated (sprinkled) with grey more strongly posteriorly. Beyond these is a similar acutely angulated transverse line at five-sixths marked with an extremely fine dash or group of blackish-grey scales in the disc, and streaks on the apical part of the costa and termen. There are some blackish-grey scales on the fold towards the tornus. The hindwings are grey whitish in males, with a thin expansible pencil of very fine whitish hairs from the base of the costa. The female hindwings are light grey.

The larvae feed on the needles of Casuarina species.[2]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Eumenodora tetrachorda". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (3): 91.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Eumenodora tetrachorda". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 3, 2018.

[2] Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (3): 91.