Torodora biovalata

Torodora biovalata is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Deepak Wadhawan and Virinder Kumar Walia in 2007. It is found in Rajasthan, India.[1]

Torodora biovalata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lecithoceridae
Genus:
Torodora
Species:
T. biovalata
Binomial name
Torodora biovalata
Wadhawan & Walia, 2007

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.[2]

References
  1. "Torodora Meyrick, 1894" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Deepak Wadhawan & Virindir Kumar Walia, 2007, Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 76 (3): 207-219


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