''Timocratica argonais'' is a
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
of the family
Depressariidae
Depressariidae is a family of moths. It was formerly treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.
Subfamilies
Depressariidae consists of ten subfamilies:
* Acriinae ...
. It is found in
Brazil
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(
Amazonas),
French Guiana
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and
Guyana
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.
The
wingspan
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is about 42 mm. The forewings and hindwings are white, beneath tinged yellowish except towards the dorsum, towards the costa and apex suffused deeper yellow ochreous and the apical edge suffused fuscous. The hindwings beneath are suffused ochreous yellowish towards the costa and apical part of the termen.
''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 3 (5-7): 224
References
Moths described in 1925
Timocratica
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