''Tisis polemarcha'' 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 ...

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 the ...

. It was described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854 – 31 March 1938) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Ed ...

in 1926. It is found on

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and

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. The

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is about 26 mm. The forewings are light orange with thick costal and dorsal and slender median dark grey streaks from the base to one-fifth, the costal marked with blue leaden metallic, sending a curved undefined fascia of dark grey suffusion mixed with blue-leaden-metallic scales to near the dorsum before the middle. There is a broad dark grey streak narrowed posteriorly along the costa from two-fifths to the apex, almost confluent with the preceding, leaving the costal edge yellow. A dark grey wedge-shaped blotch extends from the disc at three-fourths to the lower part of the termen, the apex anterior. The hindwings are dark grey, the discal area from near the base to near termen, and the costal area suffused ochreous whitish, a series of long erect ochreous-whitish hairs along the submedian fold and a short tuft of ochreous-whitish hairs on the costal gland at one-third.''The Sarawak Museum Journal''. 3: 155.

References

Moths described in 1926 Tisis {{Lecithocerinae-stub