''Frisilia tricrosura'' is a
moth in the family
Lecithoceridae
The Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalayan realm and the southern part of th ...
. It was described by Chun-Sheng Wu and Kyu-Tek Park in 1999. It is found in
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 ...
.
The
wingspan is 10–12 mm. The forewings are ochreous yellow, speckled with brown scales and with a dot in the cell and a discocellular spot, both brown. The hindwings are light ochreous.
Etymology
The species name is said to be derived from Greek ''tricros'' (meaning three forked) and ''ura'' (meaning tail).
''Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology'' 15
/ref> The proper word for “tail” in ancient Greek is however ''oura'' (οὐρά).[Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). ''A Greek-English Lexicon revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press.]
References
Moths described in 1999
Frisilia
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