Epichostis melanocona

Epichostis melanocona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Genus: Epichostis
Species: E. melanocona
Binomial name
Epichostis melanocona
(Meyrick, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Hermogenes melanocona Meyrick, 1908

Epichostis melanocona is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is 13-17 mm. The forewings are light violet-fuscous, the costa suffused with pale ochreous except towards the apex. There is a variable transverse or subtriangular blackish blotch on the dorsum before the middle, edged with whitish-yellow, reaching nearly three-fourths across the wing. The second discal stigma is black and moderate, edged with whitish-ochreous. There is a transverse streak of blackish suffusion from five-sixths of the costa to before the tornus, becoming obsolete dorsally, curved inwards on the upper half. There is an interrupted blackish terminal line. The hindwings are pale grey.[2]

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