Coleophora thiophaea

Coleophora thiophaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Coleophoridae
Genus: Coleophora
Species: C. thiophaea
Binomial name
Coleophora thiophaea
Meyrick, 1917[1]

Coleophora thiophaea is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found in south-eastern India (Dindigul, Tamil Nadu).

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The head and thorax are whitish-ochreous. The palpi is ferruginous-yellowish or yellow-whitish. The antennae are stout, ochreous-whitish and the basal joint shortly rough-scaled anteriorly. The abdomen is whitish-ochreous. The forewings are light ochreous-yellow, although deeper and ferruginous-tinged posteriorly. There is an undefined elongate rather dark fuscous patch extending along the termen, suffused anteriorly with yellow-ferruginous. The hindwings are grey, tinged with pale ochreous towards the apex.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Catalogo Mundial Sistematico y de Distribucion de la Familia Coleophoridae
  2. ↑ A Taxonomic Review of the Coleophoridae (Lepidoptera) Of The Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka Described by Edward Meyrick
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