Lyonetia probolactis

Lyonetia probolactis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lyonetiidae
Genus: Lyonetia
Species: L. probolactis
Binomial name
Lyonetia probolactis
Meyrick, 1911

Lyonetia probolactis is a moth in the family Lyonetiidae. It is known from Mahé and Silhouette islands in the Seychelles.[1]

This species has a wingspan of 9–10 mm – head, palpi, antennae and thorax are silvery with, crown smooth. Forewings are pale shiny silvery grey, an ochreous-brown fascia about 23, triangularly expanded towards costa where it unites with an ochreous-brown apical patch, within which is a small round black apical spot, preceded by two small white costal marks partly in cilia. Cilia are pale grey.[2]

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