Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Depressariidae | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Rank Species | |
Genus Nematochares
Meyrick, 1931 | ||
Nematochares citraulax is a moth in the Depressariidae family, and the only species in the genus Nematochares. It was described by Meyrick in 1931 and is found in Brazil.
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are dark purplish with a rounded orange basal spot, and beyond this on the costa a narrow attenuated pale yellow streak to three-fourths, terminated basally by a small dark purple spot and out near the base by another. There are some pale greenish-yellow longitudinal streaks, one above the middle from one-fifth of the wing to the end of the cell, two from just beyond the end of the cell to the costa before the apex and the middle of the termen respectively, one from the basal spot below the middle is curved to the termen above the tornns. The hindwings are dark fuscous.