Indiospastus

Indiospastus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Autostichidae
Genus: Indiospastus
Gozmány, 1967
Species: I. epenthetica
Binomial name
Indiospastus epenthetica
(Meyrick, 1931)
Synonyms
  • Symmoca epenthetica Meyrick, 1931

Indiospastus is a moth genus in the family Autostichidae. It contains the species Indiospastus epenthetica, which is found in India (Sikkim).[1]

The wingspan is 13-15 mm. The forewings are whitish speckled dark fusccus, the markings grey irrorated dark fuscous or blackish. There is a small spot on the base of the costa and small spots representing the stigmata, the plical slightly beyond the first discal, the second discal transverse or transversely double, an additional spot beyond and above the plical usually confluent with it, and another between the discal. There is a larger spot on the costa beyond the second discal and an undefined spot of suffusion on the tornus. A series of irregular dots is found around the apical part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey.[2]

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