Lethata Myrochroa
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''Lethata myrochroa'' 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
Depressariidae Depressariidae is a family of moths. It has formerly been treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.Heikkilä, M. ''et al''. 2014: Morphology reinforces proposed mo ...
. It is found in
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. The
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is about 18 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous tinged with pinkish, the costa suffused with dull pinkish and with the extreme costal edge whitish. The stigmata are small and fuscous, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is a small faint fuscous spot on the costa at one-fourth and an undefined triangular spot of pinkish-fuscous suffusion on the middle of the costa, as well as a rather curved fuscous line from a small spot on the costa beyond two-thirds to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are ochreous whitish.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 1 (14): 448


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Moths described in 1915 Lethata Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Stenomatinae-stub