Tonica mixogama

Tonica mixogama is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1928.[1] It is found on New Britain of Papua New Guinea.[2]

Tonica mixogama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Tonica
Species:
T. mixogama
Binomial name
Tonica mixogama
Meyrick, 1928

The wingspan is 32–40 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous sprinkled with lighter and darker brown, in males appearing ochreous and in females much browner. In females, there are scattered black scales in the disc, especially between the veins beyond the cell. There is a short black dash towards the costa at one-third in females which is brown in males. A scale-tuft is found near the base in the middle, one almost dorsal at one-fourth, three large representing the stigmata, with the plical obliquely beyond the first discal, and a smaller one between the discal. In females, a submarginal series of small black sprinkles is found around the posterior third of the costa and termen, the costa above this is suffusedly mixed with dark fuscous, these are ferruginous in males. The hindwings are whitish ochreous in males and light greyish in females.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Tonica mixogama". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (June 28, 2014). "Tonica mixogama Meyrick, 1928". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (14-15): 474.


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