Deltoplastis scopulosa is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found in southern India.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lecithoceridae |
| Genus: | Deltoplastis |
| Species: | D. scopulosa
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| Deltoplastis scopulosa (Meyrick, 1910)
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The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are ochreous grey, sometimes much suffused with whitish, especially towards the costa. There is a small blackish mark on the base of the costa and a rounded-triangular blackish blotch edged with whitish extending on the dorsum from one-fifth to beyond the middle, and reaching four-fifths across the wing. There is an oblique black white-edged strigula from the middle of costa and a rounded triangular dark fuscous blotch crossing the wing posteriorly, its base formed by a whitish line from five-sixths of the costa to the tornus, its lower side margined by a curved whitish line preceded by a blackish line, of which the extremity is somewhat enlarged to indicate the second discal stigma, edged anteriorly with whitish on the transverse vein. A black line is found on the apical portion of the costa. The hindwings are grey, darker posteriorly.[2]
References edit
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (April 25, 2016). "Deltoplastis scopulosa Meyrick, 1910". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 20 (2): 450.
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