''Tornodoxa paraleptopalta'' 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

Gelechiidae The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable dis ...

. It was described by Ueda in 2012. It is found in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

(Honshu, Kyushu)., 2012: Four new species of the tribe Chelariini (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from Japan. ''Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan'' 63(2): 79-86

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References

Chelariini Moths described in 2012 {{Chelariini-stub