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Sphaerolbia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Suborder
  
Glossata

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Superfamily
  
Gelechioidea

Sphaerolbia is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Sphaerolbia chrematistis, which is found in India (Assam).

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are bright yellow with large rounded leaden-metallic discal blotches about one-third and two-thirds, the first nearly reaching the costa, the second reaching the tornus, suffused dorsally and connected along the dorsum by dark purplish-fuscous suffusion, the whole design surrounded except on the dorsum by orange suffusion. The hindwings are light greyish, the apex suffused pale yellow.

References

Sphaerolbia Wikipedia