Phanoschista

Phanoschista
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
(unranked): Ditrysia
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Phanoschista
Meyrick, 1925
Species: P. meryntis
Binomial name
Phanoschista meryntis
(Meyrick, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Tingentera meryntis Meyrick, 1908

Phanoschista is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Phanoschista meryntis, which is found in southern India.[1]

The wingspan is 17-19 mm. The forewings are bronzy-fuscous with bluish-leaden reflections and with the basal third irregularly streaked longitudinally with yellowish, with dark shining purplish-fuscous costal and purple-blackish subcostal streaks, and lines of blackish scales between the yellowish streaks. There is a slender oblique pale yellowish median fascia, yellower posteriorly and the posterior half of the wing is streaked with ochreous-yellowish on the veins, the interspaces shining leaden-metallic. The hindwings are grey, in males broadly suffused with whitish-ochreous-yellowish in the disc, with a submedian groove containing an expansible pencil of long pale yellowish hairs.[2]

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