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Deltoplastis scopulosa

Synonyms: Onebala scopulosa

Wikipedia Abstract

Deltoplastis scopulosa is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1910. It is found in southern India. 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 onthe 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 extrem
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Prey / Diet

Planchonia careya (Cockatoo Apple)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0