Timyra dipsalea

Timyra dipsalea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Timyra
Species: T. dipsalea
Binomial name
Timyra dipsalea
Meyrick, 1908

Timyra dipsalea is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in India (Assam).[1]

The wingspan is 17—19 mm. The forewings are fuscous, irrorated with fuscous-whitish scales tipped with blackish and with a suffused whitish-ochreous streak along the dorsum. There are some raised scales in the disc near the base. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, towards the apex tinged with fuscous and with a subdorsal groove containing an expansible pencil of very long pale ochreous-yellowish hairs.[2]

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