Agdistopis sinhala

Agdistopis sinhala is a moth of the family Macropiratidae. It is found in south-east Asia, including Sri Lanka, India, Japan and Taiwan.

The species was described under three different names during the early decades of the twentieth century, first by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1909, as a member of the widely distributed plume moth genus Agdistis:AGDISTIS SINHALA, n.s.♂. Expanse 24 mm. Antennae ciliated (1), gray. Palpi densely scaled, gray, faintly irrorated with fuscous; projecting nearly length of head beyond it. Fore legs gray irrorated above with fuscous and with a conspicuous dilation at end of tibia. (Second pair of legs wanting.) Hind legs very long, light gray, spurs minute, first pair at about two-thirds, second pair apical. Head gray, with a faint fuscous median line. Thorax pale fuscous, with a sub-dorsal graying longitudinal line. Abdomen very long and slender, pale gray, darkening apically; a pale fuscous dorsal line on first three abdominal segments; anal tuft pale gray. Fore wing elongate, narrow, widening exteriorly, with a slightly falcate apex and distinct tornal angle; grayish fuscous; a dark fuscous bar along dorsum from base to about 1/3; outer third of wing (except costa) irrorated with dark fuscous and traversed by an oblique white streak most conspicuous in apex. Cilia grayish-fuscous. Hing wing triangular, apex acute, outer margin undulate with two very shallow excavations in normal positions of clefts; fuscous. Cilia fuscous, rather long in vicinity of anal angle.Type ♂ (No. 6,900) in Coll. Bainbrigge Fletcher.Locality.