Tirathaba purpurella

Tirathaba purpurella is a species of moth of the family Pyralidae.[2] It was described by George Hampson in 1917. It is found on the Louisiade Islands in Papua New Guinea.[1][3]

Tirathaba purpurella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Tirathaba
Species:
T. purpurella
Binomial name
Tirathaba purpurella

The wingspan is about 38 mm. The forewings are purple suffused with fuscous, the veins streaked with fuscous and with a rufous discoidal spot. The hindwings are greyish fuscous, somewhat ochreous towards the base.[4]

References

  1. "Tirathaba Walker, 1864" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  2. "Tirathaba purpurella". insecta.pro.
  3. "Tirathaba purpurella - ZipcodeZoo". zipcodezoo.com.
  4. Novitates Zoologicae. 24 : 34


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