Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Idiophantis | |
Idiophantis carpotoma is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1916. It is found in southern India.
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, with the bases of the scales pale greyish-ochreous and two yellow semi-oval dorsal blotches reaching half across the wing, the first about one-third, the second on tornal the area. There is a fulvous-yellow line from three-fifths of the costa to the posterior extremity of the second blotch, right-angled in the disc, edged with black posteriorly towards the extremities, followed by a leaden streak from the costa, black-edged posteriorly towards the costa, expanded beneath into a coppery-tinged spot filling the tornal prominence and marked with a black dot at its apex. The apical prominence beyond this is ferruginous-yellow, cut by a short oblique white line near its base, continued along the lower margin to the apex. The hindwings are light grey.