Timyra toxastis

Timyra toxastis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Timyra
Species: T. toxastis
Binomial name
Timyra toxastis
Meyrick, 1908

Timyra toxastis is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in southern India.[1]

The wingspan is 17—20 mm. The forewings are brown sprinkled with dark fuscous and with narrow orange subcostal and submedian streaks from the base, not reaching the middle. There is a slender curved rather oblique white median fascia. The veins on the posterior third of the wing are marked with irregular white streaks and there is a slender white streak along the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey.[2]

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