Sphaerolbia
Sphaerolbia is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Sphaerolbia chrematistis, which is found in India (Assam).[1]
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| Genus: | Sphaerolbia Meyrick, 1934 |
| Species: | S. chrematistis |
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The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are bright yellow with large rounded leaden-metallic discal blotches about one-third and two-thirds, the first nearly reaching the costa, the second reaching the tornus, suffused dorsally and connected along the dorsum by dark purplish-fuscous suffusion, the whole design surrounded except on the dorsum by orange suffusion. The hindwings are light greyish, the apex suffused pale yellow.[2]
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