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Technographa

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Technographa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Subfamily: Lecithocerinae
Genus: Technographa
Meyrick, 1925
Species:
T. ephestris
Binomial name
Technographa ephestris
(Meyrick, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Tingentera ephestris Meyrick, 1908

Technographa is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Technographa ephestris, which is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are orange with a blackish dot on the base of the costa. There is a fascia near the base composed of two irregular dark fuscous lines mixed with leaden-metallic coincident at the extremities. There is a similar irregular transverse line at one-fourth, closely followed by a moderate dark fuscous fascia, narrowed on the costa and dilated on the dorsum. There is a round dark fuscous dot mixed with leaden-metallic in the middle of the disc and a moderate inwards-curved fascia of fuscous suffusion from about three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, marked with a strongly inwards-oblique leaden-metallic streak from the costa, a dot below the middle, and a longitudinal mark on the tornus. There are also three similar longitudinal leaden-metallic marks on the termen, and one on the costa before the apex, more or less surrounded with fuscous suffusion. The hindwings are rather dark grey with a small whitish-ochreous patch at the tornus, above which is a hyaline groove containing a pencil of whitish-ochreous hairs.[2]

References

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  1. ^ funet.fi
  2. ^ J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 18 (2): 454Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.