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Heteralcis holocona

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lecithoceridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Heteralcis

Heteralcis holocona is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka.

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, faintly purplish-tinged and with a yellowish basal dot. There are two irregular inwardly oblique pale yellowish transverse lines before and beyond one-fourth and a triangular ochreous-yellow blotch on the costa beyond the middle, reaching more than half across the wing, as well as a yellow dot in the disc beyond the apex of this. The hindwings are dark fuscous, with a submedian groove containing an expansible pencil of very long whitish-ochreous hairs.

References

Heteralcis holocona Wikipedia