Batrachedra hypoxutha | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Batrachedridae |
Genus: | Batrachedra |
Species: | B. hypoxutha |
Binomial name | |
Batrachedra hypoxutha Meyrick, 1897 |
Batrachedra hypoxutha is a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae. It is found in Australia.
Original description
Female 11–12 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish-ochreous. Palpi white, second joint with very oblique ochreous or fuscous subapical band, scale-projection slight. Antennae white, ringed with brown. Legs dark fuscous, suffusedly banded with whitish. Forewings yellow-brown; costal edge suffusedly white; cilia light brownish. Hindwings grey; cilia light brownish. Brisbane and Rosewood, Queensland; Sydney, New South Wales; in September and December, three specimens.
— Original description by Edward Meyrick
References
Taxon identifiers | |
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Batrachedra hypoxutha |
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