Issikiopteryx sphaeristis

Issikiopteryx sphaeristis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lecithoceridae
Genus:	Issikiopteryx
Species:	I. sphaeristis
Binomial name
Issikiopteryx sphaeristis (Meyrick, 1908)
Synonyms
Timyra sphaeristis Meyrick, 1908 Olbothrepta sphaeristis

Issikiopteryx sphaeristis is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It is found in southern India.^[1]

The wingspan is 16-17 mm. The forewings are ochreous-yellow with a dark fuscous basal median dot and a moderate oblique fuscous fascia from near the costa at one-fourth to the middle of the dorsum, as well as a round fuscous blotch resting on the dorsum before the tornus and reaching four-fifths across the wing. There is also a triangular patch of fuscous suffusion resting on the termen. The hindwings are pale whitish-yellowish, in males with the basal half mostly occupied by a patch of modified brownish scales, including a long expansible pencil of brown hairs from the base in a submedian groove.^[2]

References

1. Olbothrepta at funet
2. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 18 (2): 450