Lecithocera metacausta: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lecithoceridae
- Genus
- Lecithocera
- Species
- Lecithocera metacausta
- Scientific Name
- Lecithocera metacausta
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lecithocera metacausta
Lecithocera metacausta is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It is found in India (Assam, Himachal Pradesh), Taiwan and Korea.
The wingspan is 13–16 mm. The forewings are yellow-ochreous, suffusedly sprinkled with brown or dark fuscous and with the base of the costa more or less suffused with dark fuscous. The discal stigmata are dark fuscous, sometimes with a transverse mark of dark fuscous suffusion between the second discal and the dorsum. There is a dark fuscous patch along the termen from the apex, more or less narrowed downwards and not reaching the tornus. The hindwings are pale grey or in females sometimes grey.
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Sibling Taxa
- Lecithocera acrosphales
- Lecithocera aenicta
- Lecithocera afrotella
- Lecithocera alampes
- Lecithocera altusana
- Lecithocera anatolica
- Lecithocera anglijuxta
- Lecithocera anguistiella
- Lecithocera anthologella
- Lecithocera atricastana
- Lecithocera aulias
- Lecithocera aulicousta
- Lecithocera autologa
- Lecithocera biferrinella
- Lecithocera bimaculata
- Lecithocera binotata
- Lecithocera caecilia
- Lecithocera capnaula
- Lecithocera cerussata
- Lecithocera chamela
- Lecithocera chartaca
- Lecithocera chersitis
- Lecithocera chloroscia
- Lecithocera combusta
- Lecithocera concinna
- Lecithocera cornutella
- Lecithocera corythaeola
- Lecithocera crypsigenes
- Lecithocera cucullata
- Lecithocera cyamitis
- Lecithocera cyclisca
- Lecithocera daebuensis
- Lecithocera dicentropa
- Lecithocera dondavisi
- Lecithocera duplicata
- Lecithocera dysmica
- Lecithocera epomia
- Lecithocera erecta
- Lecithocera eucharis
- Lecithocera eumenopis
- Lecithocera exophthalma
- Lecithocera fascicula
- Lecithocera fascinatrix
- Lecithocera flavipalpis
- Lecithocera fornacalis
- Lecithocera frustrata
- Lecithocera fuscosa
- Lecithocera glabrata
- Lecithocera glaphyritis
- Lecithocera haemylopis
- Lecithocera homocentra
- Lecithocera ideologa
- Lecithocera imprudens
- Lecithocera indigens
- Lecithocera iodocarpha
- Lecithocera iresia
- Lecithocera isomitra
- Lecithocera latiola
- Lecithocera longivalva
- Lecithocera loxophthalma
- Lecithocera lucernata
- Lecithocera malacta
- Lecithocera mazina
- Lecithocera megalopis
- Lecithocera metacausta
- Lecithocera micromela
- Lecithocera minyodes
- Lecithocera myopa
- Lecithocera nigrana
- Lecithocera obsignata
- Lecithocera officialis
- Lecithocera omphacias
- Lecithocera palingensis
- Lecithocera paralevirota
- Lecithocera paraulias
- Lecithocera pauperella
- Lecithocera pelomorpha
- Lecithocera phratriastis
- Lecithocera platomona
- Lecithocera protoma
- Lecithocera pulchella
- Lecithocera pyxinodes
- Lecithocera rotundata
- Lecithocera sceptrarcha
- Lecithocera serena
- Lecithocera shanpinensis
- Lecithocera signifera
- Lecithocera sinuosa
- Lecithocera sobria
- Lecithocera strenua
- Lecithocera sublunata
- Lecithocera terrigena
- Lecithocera thaiheisana
- Lecithocera theconoma
- Lecithocera tienchiensis
- Lecithocera tridentata
- Lecithocera trifera
- Lecithocera xanthochalca
- Lecithocera xanthocosma