''Tinea porphyropa'' is a cave-dwelling
moth of the family
Tineidae. It is known from
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
,
Indonesia and
Malaysia.
The
wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are rather dark purple-grey with a cloudy darker spot on the end of the cell. The hindwings are rather dark bronzy-fuscous.
Exot. Microlep. 3: 332
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Subspecies
*''Tinea porphyropa porphyropa''
*''Tinea porphyropa batuensis'' Bradley, 1973 (West Malaysia)
References
Tineinae
Moths described in 1927
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