Tirathaba cissinobaphes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Genus:	Tirathaba
Species:	T. cissinobaphes
Binomial name
Tirathaba cissinobaphes (Turner, 1906)[1]
Synonyms
Mellissoblaptes cissinobaphes Turner, 1906 Aphomia astericta Turner, 1937

Tirathaba cissinobaphes is a species of moth of the family Pyralidae.^[2][3] It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1906. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.^[4][1][5]

The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are ochreous whitish, mixed with dark fuscous and reddish fuscous, in the posterior part of the disc, the dark scales form lines along the veins. There is a large oval green suffusion on the dorsum from one-fifth nearly to the tornus, reaching nearly to the middle of the disc, and there is a slight green suffusion at the apex, as well as a series of minute dark-fuscous dots on the termen and apical fourth of the costa. The hindwings are dull ochreous, the apical fourth suffused with dull greenish.^[6]

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