Timyra pastas

Timyra pastas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Timyra
Species: T. pastas
Binomial name
Timyra pastas
Meyrick, 1908

Timyra pastas is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in southern India.[1]

The wingspan is 19—23 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous-yellowish irregularly sprinkled with blackish and dark fuscous. There is a small blackish basal spot and a broad suffused dark fuscous antemedian fascia. A broad suffused fascia of dark fuscous and black irroration occupyies the apical fourth of the wing. The hindwings are dark fuscous, in males with a short subdorsal groove, beneath which is a short fringe of whitish-ochreous hairs.[2]

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