Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lecithoceridae | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Torodora | |
Torodora biovalata is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Deepak Wadhawan and Virinder Kumar Walia in 2007. It is found in Rajasthan, India.
The wingspan is 20–21 mm for males and about 26 mm for females. The forewings are fuscous with the costa narrowly light yellow, expanded at three-fourths from the base, continued below as a thin white line up to the inner margin, bent in the middle towards the termen. There are two blackish-fuscous spots in the discal cell with one in the middle and the other at the end, the former spot accompanied with three to four patches of a few white scales. The hindwings are brownish ochraceous, with the basal half of the costa creamy white. Adults have been recorded on wing in March, April, August, September and October.
Etymology
The species name refers to the two latero-distal oval processes on the juxtal plate.