Deltoplastis caduca is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found in Assam, India.[1]

Deltoplastis caduca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Deltoplastis
Species:
D. caduca
Binomial name
Deltoplastis caduca
(Meyrick, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Onebala caduca Meyrick, 1910

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous with a blackish-fuscous mark along the costa at the base and a very oblique trapezoidal blackish-fuscous blotch extending on the dorsum from near the base to two-fifths, and reaching rather beyond the fold, in males reduced to an elongate spot above the fold. There is a very oblique black strigula from the costa before the middle and a blackish-fuscous pale-edged mark on the transverse vein, the upper end enlarged, in females surrounded with some undefined fuscous suffusion. There is a somewhat sinuate ochreous-whitish line from five-sixths of the costa to the tornus, edged anteriorly with dark fuscous suffusion enlarged in the disc into a triangular patch almost reaching the preceding mark. A blackish line is found around the apex and termen. The hindwings are light grey, tinged with yellowish.[2]

References

edit
  1. ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (April 25, 2016). "Deltoplastis caduca (Meyrick, 1910)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  2. ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 20 (2): 454.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.