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Batrachedra diplosema

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Moth species in family Batrachedridae

Batrachedra diplosema
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Batrachedridae
Genus: Batrachedra
Species: B. diplosema
Binomial name
Batrachedra diplosema
Meyrick, 1897

Batrachedra diplosema is a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae. It is found in Australia.

Original description

Male, Female 7-8 mm. Head and thorax ochreous, face whitish. Palpi whitish, subapical and apical rings of second joint and median band of terminal black, scale-projection very slight. Antennae whitish, suffusedly ringed with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, sides white. Legs fuscous, sprinkled with white and ringed with black. Forewings brownish-ochreous, irrorated with dark fuscous; first and second discal stigmata round, black; cilia light fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia light fuscous. Brisbane, Queensland; in September, two specimens.

— Original description by Edward Meyrick

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Taxon identifiers
Batrachedra diplosema


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