Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Depressariidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Tonica | |
Tonica mixogama top 5 facts
Tonica mixogama is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1928. It is found on New Britain.
The wingspan is 32–40 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous irrorated lighter and darker brown, in males appearing ochreous and in females much browner. In females, there are scattered black scales in the disc, especially between the veins beyond the cell. There is a short black dash towards the costa at one-third in females which is brown in males. A scale-tuft is found near the base in the middle, one almost dorsal at one-fourth, three large representing the stigmata, with the plical obliquely beyond the first discal, and a smaller one between the discal. In females, a submarginal series of small spots of black irroration is found around the posterior third of the costa and termen, the costa above this suffusedly mixed dark fuscous, these are ferruginous in males. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous in males and light greyish in females.