''Torodora sortilega'' is a

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in the family

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. It is found in the

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, and in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. The Taiwanese specimens were obtained at elevations of

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Description

The

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is 21–23 mm. The forewings are light brownish–ochreous, somewhat sprinkled with fuscous and with the costal edge ochreous–yellowish except towards the base, where it is dark fuscous. The stigmata are blackish, the first discal well-marked, the plical obsolete, absorbed in a transverse mark of dark fuscous suffusion from the dorsum, the second discal represented by two transversely placed sometimes connected dots. There is a small spot of dark fuscous suffusion on the costa somewhat beyond the first discal and a wedge-shaped mark of blackish suffusion on the costa, where a rather pale obscure anteriorly fuscous-edged somewhat curved line runs to four-fifths of the dorsum. There is also an interrupted blackish terminal line. The hindwings are pale ochreous tinged with fuscous. (''Brachmia sortilega'': p. 714)

References

Torodora Moths of Asia Moths of Taiwan Moths described in 1911 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Torodora-stub