Protolychnis chlorotoma

Protolychnis chlorotoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Protolychnis
Species: P. chlorotoma
Binomial name
Protolychnis chlorotoma
(Meyrick, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Onebala chlorotoma Meyrick, 1914

Protolychnis chlorotoma is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Malawi.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are dark purple-fuscous with a direct transverse whitish-ochreous streak just before the middle, slightly angulated inwards towards the costa. There is a fine series of scattered whitish-ochreous scales from a dot on the costa at four-fifths to the dorsum before the tornus, angulated outwards in the middle. The hindwings are dark grey, lighter in the disc anteriorly.[3]

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