Microcolona technographa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Elachistidae
Genus: Microcolona
Species:
M. technographa
Binomial name
Microcolona technographa
Meyrick, 1928

Microcolona technographa is a moth in the family Elachistidae.[1] It is found in north-eastern India.[2]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are brownish-fuscous, with a slender blackish-grey streak along the basal third of the costa, interrupted in the middle by a whitish dot. A blotch of whitish suffusion occupies the dorsal half from the base to one-third and there is a whitish oval ring in the disc slightly before the middle, from which a slender blackish-grey streak extends to the end of the cell. There is also a dark elongate blotch along the posterior half of the dorsum, anteriorly with a large tuft and edged by whitish suffusion. There is an oblique whitish strigula from the costa beyond the middle and a dark grey rounded or transverse blotch resting on the middle of the termen, edged above by an oblique white line. There is also a blackish-grey blotch crossing the wing just before the apex. The hindwings are dark grey with a pale or whitish base.

The larvae feed on Psidium guajava. They bore in the tender shoots of their host plant and pupate within the feeding tunnel.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Microcolona technographa​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Microcolona at funet
  3. ↑ Exot. Microlep. 3 (13): 391


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