Lecithocera metacausta

Lecithocera metacausta is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It is found in India (Assam, Himachal Pradesh),^[2] Taiwan and Korea.^[3]

Lecithocera metacausta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lecithoceridae
Genus:	Lecithocera
Species:	L. metacausta
Binomial name
Lecithocera metacausta Meyrick, 1910[1]
Synonyms
Lecithocera meyricki Gozmány, 1978 (preocc. Ghesquière, 1940) Lecithocera paraulias Gozmány, 1978

The wingspan is 13–16 mm. The forewings are yellow-ochreous, suffusedly sprinkled with brown or dark fuscous and with the base of the costa more or less suffused with dark fuscous. The discal stigmata are dark fuscous, sometimes with a transverse mark of dark fuscous suffusion between the second discal and the dorsum. There is a dark fuscous patch along the termen from the apex, more or less narrowed downwards and not reaching the tornus. The hindwings are pale grey or in females sometimes grey.^[4]