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Torodora arcifera

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lecithoceridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Torodora

Torodora arcifera is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1907. It is found in Bhutan.

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-bronzy fuscous. The stigmata are blackish, the plical and first discal confluent, edged posteriorly by a slightly curved ochreous-whitish line from two-fifths of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, the second discal is obscurely edged with whitish and with an additional similar dot beneath it. There is an ochreous-whitish dot on the costa at four-fifths. The hindwings are fuscous.

References

Torodora arcifera Wikipedia