Timocratica maturescens

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Timocratica maturescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Timocratica
Species:
T. maturescens
Binomial name
Timocratica maturescens
(Meyrick, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma maturescens Meyrick, 1925

Timocratica maturescens is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana, Colombia and Venezuela.[1]

The wingspan is 42–50 mm. The forewings and hindwings are white, beneath suffused light ochreous yellowish except towards the dorsum, deeper yellow ochreous towards the costa and apex, around the apical edge more or less suffused fuscous. The hindwings beneath are suffused yellow ochreous towards the costa.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Timocratica Meyrick, 1912" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 223