Phatnotis factiosa

Phatnotis factiosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lecithoceridae
Genus:	Phatnotis
Species:	P. factiosa
Binomial name
Phatnotis factiosa Meyrick, 1913

Phatnotis factiosa is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is found in southern India.^[1]

The wingspan is 21-22 mm. The forewings are light greyish-ochreous more or less tinged with fuscous, the costal edge pale yellow-ochreous, suffused beneath with whitish-ochreous and with an indistinct slender irregular fascia of dark fuscous suffusion at two-fifths, interrupted above the middle. The second discal stigma is dark fuscous and there is a slender rather incurved fascia of dark fuscous suffusion from two-thirds of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, dilated on the costa, edged posteriorly with ochreous-whitish. The hindwings are pale ochreous, the termen tinged with fuscous.^[2]

References

1. funet.fi
2. J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 181