Heliangara lampetis

Heliangara lampetis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Genus: Heliangara
Species: H. lampetis
Binomial name
Heliangara lampetis
Meyrick, 1906

Heliangara lampetis is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1906. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is 11-13 mm. The forewings are bright shining purple-coppery-bronze with a suffused orange-yellow patch extending along the dorsum from one-fourth to three-fourths, narrowed to the extremities, not reaching half across the wing. There are two parallel thick transverse ridges of raised scales about two-thirds. The hindwings are dark fuscous, thinly scaled in the disc.[2]

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