Merocrates

Merocrates
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
(unranked): Ditrysia
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Merocrates
Meyrick, 1931
Species: M. themelias
Binomial name
Merocrates themelias
Meyrick, 1931

Merocrates is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Merocrates themelias, which is found in New Guinea.[1]

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a broad antemedian pale yellow band not quite reaching the costa, extending beneath the costa from one-fourth to the middle, dilated downwards and extending on the dorsum from one-sixth to near two-thirds, the first discal stigma forming a dark fuscous dot in this. The bases of the scales on the posterior half of the wing are whitish-hyaline. There is a cloudy yellow-whitish line from four-fifths of the costa to the tornus, somewhat indented towards the costa. The hindwings are light grey, the extreme bases of the scales whitish-hyaline, forming a fine ribbing.[2]

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