Epimactis spasmodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Epimactis
Species:
E. spasmodes
Binomial name
Epimactis spasmodes
Meyrick, 1914

Epimactis spasmodes is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in southern India.[1]

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are whitish fuscous with the costal edge whitish ochreous and with a suffused dark fuscous wedge-shaped spot along the base of the dorsum. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical beyond the first discal. There is a fuscous shade from four-fifths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, angulated inwards to touch the second discal. A strongly outwards-curved series of cloudy dark-fuscous dots is found from beneath the costa at two-thirds to the dorsum before the tornus and there is also a series of cloudy dark-fuscous dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are pale whitish grey ochreous.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (January 8, 2017). "Epimactis spasmodes Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (4): 779. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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