''Endothenia rhachistis'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family Tortricidae first described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1973. It is found in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and

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 ...

. Its larval food plant is ''

Justicia gendarussa ''Justicia gendarussa'', commonly known as willow-leaved justicia ( mr, बाकस, , , ; sa, कसनः, , , ),Lapsulis in Creole Seychelles; is a small erect, branched shrub. It has been described as rare and endemic to India, though tho ...

''.

References

Moths of Asia Moths described in 1973 {{Tortricidae-stub