Frisilia melanardis

Frisilia melanardis is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found on Borneo.[1]

Frisilia melanardis
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F. melanardis
Binomial name
Frisilia melanardis
Meyrick, 1910

The wingspan is 21–23 mm. The forewings are ochreous yellow with some scattered dark fuscous specks. The discal stigmata are round, dot like and blackish. In males, there is an oval glandular swelling between the dorsum and subdorsal groove in the middle. There is a suffused dark fuscous line along the upper part of the termen. The hindwings are grey, in males with a large and long expansible pencil of brownish hairs from the base of the costa lying beneath the forewings.[2]

References

  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (December 30, 2014). "Frisilia melanardis Meyrick, 1910". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1910: 446.


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