Batrachedra eremochtha
| Batrachedra eremochtha | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Batrachedridae |
| Genus: | Batrachedra |
| Species: | B. eremochtha |
| Binomial name | |
| Batrachedra eremochtha Meyrick, 1897 | |
Batrachedra eremochtha is a species of moth of the Batrachedridae family. It is found in Australia.
Original description
Male, 9 mm. Head whitish, crown greyish-tinged. Palpi white, subbasal and subapical rings of second joint, and basal and apical rings of terminal black, scale-projection very slight. Antennae whitish, fuscous-ringed, towards apex with three darker bands. Thorax and abdomen light grey, whitish-sprinkled. Legs dark grey, tarsi whitish-ringed. Forewings grey; an ill-defined whitish longitudinal streak in disc from about middle to near apex; plical stigma minute, black: cilia on costa grey, at apex ochreous-white with a black subbasal mark, beneath whitish-fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-fuscous. Albany, West Australia; in October, one specimen.— Original description by Edward Meyrick
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