Asterivora tillyardi

Asterivora tillyardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Choreutidae
Genus: Asterivora
Species: A. tillyardi
Binomial name
Asterivora tillyardi
(Philpott, 1924)
Synonyms
  • Simaethis tillyardi Philpott, 1924

Asterivora tillyardi is a moth of the Choreutidae family. It is known from New Zealand.[1]

The wingspan is about 17.5 mm. The head and thorax are white mixed with pale fuscous and the antennae are black annulated with white. The abdomen is bronzy-fuscous, suffusedly annulated with whitish. The legs are whitish mixed with bronzy-fuscous. The pale bronzy-fuscous mixed with dark fuscous forewings are moderate, the costa hardly arched, the apex pointed, the termen markedly sinuate and oblique. The markings are snow-white. There is a small basal patch and a broad band before middle, projecting outwardly in the disc and touching the following band. The hindwings are greyish-fuscous.

References

  1. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. Books.google.nl. Retrieved 2011-12-19.

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