Epimactis spasmodes is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in southern India.[1]
| Epimactis spasmodes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lecithoceridae |
| Genus: | Epimactis |
| Species: | E. spasmodes
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| Binomial name | |
| Epimactis spasmodes Meyrick, 1914
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The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are whitish fuscous with the costal edge whitish ochreous and with a suffused dark fuscous wedge-shaped spot along the base of the dorsum. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical beyond the first discal. There is a fuscous shade from four-fifths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, angulated inwards to touch the second discal. A strongly outwards-curved series of cloudy dark-fuscous dots is found from beneath the costa at two-thirds to the dorsum before the tornus and there is also a series of cloudy dark-fuscous dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are pale whitish grey ochreous.[2]
References edit
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (January 8, 2017). "Epimactis spasmodes Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (4): 779.
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