Heterodeltis trichroa

Heterodeltis trichroa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lecithoceridae
Genus:	Heterodeltis
Species:	H. trichroa
Binomial name
Heterodeltis trichroa (Meyrick, 1906)
Synonyms
Tipha trichroa Meyrick, 1906

Heterodeltis trichroa is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1906. It is found in Sri Lanka.^[1]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are dark brown, with the basal third dark purple-fuscous. There is a triangular white blotch on the dorsum beyond one-fourth, reaching more than half across the wing and a cloudy ochreous-yellow dot on the costa before the middle, as well as a triangular ochreous-yellow patch extending along the costa from the middle to four-fifths, and reaching more than half across the wing. The hindwings are rather dark fuscous, in males with a subdorsal furrow throughout, filled with very long expansible pale fuscous hairs.^[2]

References

1. funet.fi
2. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 17 (1): 142