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Tonica malthacodes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Tonica

Tonica malthacodes is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in New Guinea.

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous, the costal edge infuscated towards one-fourth and the plical stigma represented by a large tuft of scales. There are three or four dots of raised fuscous and dark fuscous scales beneath the costa posteriorly and the apical edge is infuscated. The hindwings are whitish.

References

Tonica malthacodes Wikipedia