''Agdistopis sinhala'' is a
moth of the family
Macropiratidae
Macropiratidae is a family of moths which has sometimes been treated as a subfamily of the Pterophoridae, owing to the resemblance between specimens of Macropiratidae and plume moths of the genus ''Agdistis'', at least when preserved as pinned ...
. It is found in
south-east Asia, including
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
,
India,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
and
Taiwan.
The species was described under three different names during the early decades of the twentieth century, first by
Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1909, as a member of the widely distributed plume moth genus ''
Agdistis
Agdistis ( grc, Ἄγδιστις) is a deity of Greek, Roman, and Anatolian mythology who possesses both male and female sexual organs. They were closely associated with the Phrygian goddess Cybele.
Their androgyny was seen as a symbol of ...
'':
AGDISTIS SINHALA, ''n.s.''
♂. Expanse 24 mm. Antennae ciliated (1), gray. Palpi densely scaled, gray, faintly irrorated with