Kalocyrma Epileuca
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''Kalocyrma epileuca'' 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 ...
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
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is about 9 mm. The forewings are milky white with a brownish pattern. The cell dot is small and there are two well-defined discal spots. The hindwings are light brown.


Etymology

The species name is derived from Greek ''epileucos'' (meaning whitish)., 1999: Taxonomic review of the ''Lecithoceridae'' (Lepidoptera) in Sri Lanka VI. The subfamily Lecithocerinae: Genera ''Alciphanes'' and others. ''Insecta Koreana'' 16 (2): 131-142.


References

Moths described in 1999 Kalocyrma {{Lecithocerinae-stub