Heliangara lampetis

Heliangara lampetis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Autostichidae
Genus:	Heliangara
Species:	H. lampetis
Binomial name
	Heliangara lampetis; Meyrick, 1906

Heliangara lampetis is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found in Sri Lanka.^[1]

The wingspan is 11–13 mm. The forewings are bright shining purple coppery bronze with a suffused orange-yellow patch extending along the dorsum from one-fourth to three-fourths, narrowed to the extremities, not reaching halfway across the wing. There are two parallel thick transverse ridges of raised scales at about two-thirds. The hindwings are dark fuscous, thinly scaled in the disc.^[2]

References[]

^ Savela, Markku, ed. (December 2, 2013). "Heliangara lampetis Meyrick, 1906". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 17 (1): 147.

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[1] Savela, Markku, ed. (December 2, 2013). "Heliangara lampetis Meyrick, 1906". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 31, 2020.

[2] Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 17 (1): 147.

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