Eumenodora tetrachorda

Eumenodora tetrachorda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Genus: Eumenodora
Species: E. tetrachorda
Binomial name
Eumenodora tetrachorda
Meyrick, 1924

Eumenodora encrypta is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1906. It is found in India.[1]

The wingspan is about 7 mm. The forewings are ochreous-brownish with four narrow obscure suffused whitish longitudinal streaks (subcostal, discal, plical, and dorsal) from the base to about three-fourths, irrorated grey more strongly posteriorly. Beyond these is a similar acutely angulated transverse line at five-sixths marked with an extremely fine dash or group of blackish-grey scales in the disc, and streaks on the apical part of the costa and termen. There are some blackish-grey scales on the fold towards the tornus. The hindwings are grey-whitish in males, with a thin expansible pencil of very fine whitish hairs from the base of the costa. The female hindwings are light grey.

The larvae feed on the needles of Casuarina species.[2]

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