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Torodora strophopa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lecithoceridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Torodora

Torodora strophopa is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1923. It is found in southern India.

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are rather dark bronzy fuscous. The stigmata are black, the first discal moderate, others large, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal, the second discal transverse. There is a hardly perceptible lighter subterminal shade angulated outwards in the middle and inwards near the costa, on the costa pale ochreous. The hindwings are light grey.

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Torodora strophopa Wikipedia