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Timyra toxastis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lecithoceridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Timyra

Timyra toxastis is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in southern India.

The wingspan is 17—20 mm. The forewings are brown sprinkled with dark fuscous and with narrow orange subcostal and submedian streaks from the base, not reaching the middle. There is a slender curved rather oblique white median fascia. The veins on the posterior third of the wing are marked with irregular white streaks and there is a slender white streak along the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey.

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Timyra toxastis Wikipedia