Timyra alloptila is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1916. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lecithoceridae |
| Genus: | Timyra |
| Species: | T. alloptila
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| Binomial name | |
| Timyra alloptila Meyrick, 1916
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The wingspan is 24–25 mm. The forewings are ochreous yellow and the markings are dark purple fuscous, with a streak along the costa from the base to two-fifths, with an erect partly yellow tuft beneath it before its middle and a small raised spot on the dorsum beneath this tuft. There is a suffused trapezoidal blotch on the dorsum beyond the middle, and one on the costa at three-fourths, nearly meeting. There is a more or less developed narrow terminal fascia. The hindwings light ochreous yellow, the costa and tornus suffused with grey and a deep plical groove filled with long expansible yellow-whitish hairs.[2]
References
edit- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (December 30, 2014). "Timyra alloptila Meyrick, 1916". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
- ^ Meyrick, Edward (1912–1916). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 1 (18): 570.
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