''Heteralcis palathodes'' 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

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 1906. It is found in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. The

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is 14–16 mm. The forewings are ochreous yellow with small dark fuscous spots on the costa at and near the base, and near the base of the dorsum. There are three irregular obscure brownish-ochreous fasciae at one-fourth, the middle, and three-fourths, dilated in the disc, and a similar transverse line before the second, sometimes mostly confluent with it, the third sometimes suffused with fuscous. The hindwings are dark grey in males, with the apex whitish ochreous, with a subdorsal groove enclosing a long ochreous-yellowish hair-pencil. The hindwings of the females are grey, with the apex and upper part of the termen suffused with whitish ochreous.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 17 (1): 144.

References

Moths described in 1906 Heteralcis Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Lecithocerinae-stub