Onebala Leptobrocha
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''Deltoplastis leptobrocha'' 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 Edward Meyrick in 1923. It is found in southern India. The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are brownish fuscous, the basal third suffused with grey. The markings are bluish leaden. There is an angulated transverse streak before the middle, the costa from this is dark fuscous, cut by small white marks at the middle and four-fifths, from the first a line running to the dorsum before the tornus with a posterior loop line leaving it near the costa and rejoining it near the dorsum, from the second a direct transverse line to the tornus with a slight outward sinus in the middle. A black streak is found along the apical part of the costa and a line along the termen, within these a bluish-leaden streak. The hindwings are grey.''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 3 (1-2): 44.
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Moths described in 1923 Deltoplastis Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Torodorinae-stub