Tanycyttara

Tanycyttara is a monotypic genus of Australian moths in the family Gelechiidae containing the sole species Tanycyttara xanthomochla, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[1]

Tanycyttara
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Subfamily: Gelechiinae
Genus: Tanycyttara
Turner, 1933
Species:
T. xanthomochla
Binomial name
Tanycyttara xanthomochla
Turner, 1933

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are pale yellow with the dorsal area suffused with fuscous and with a fuscous streak from the base along the fold to the tornus and a fuscous costal streak from the base to the middle, its apex connected by an oblique streak with a dark fuscous V-shaped mark resting on the tornus. There is also a broad dark fuscous marginal line on the posterior one-fourth of the costa and tornus. The hindwings are pale grey.[2]

References
  1. funet.fi
  2. Trans. Proc. R. Soc. S. Austr. 57 : 174


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