Eupselia callidyas

Eupselia callidyas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Eupselia
Species: E. callidyas
Binomial name
Eupselia callidyas
Meyrick, 1915

Eupselia callidyas is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from the Northern Territory.[1]

The wingspan is 12-13 mm. The forewings are dark bronzy-fuscous with the basal area tinged with rosy-purple and with an erect elongate-triangular light ochreous-yellow blotch from the dorsum before the middle nearly reaching the costa. There are two light yellowish spots on the costa towards the middle, where two parallel bright coppery-blue-purple lines run direct to the dorsum. Two oldique transverse coppery-blue-purple lines are found before the apex and there is a black streak along the lower portion of the termen containing three small round black spots set in whitish-ochreous rings becoming golden-metallic on the terminal edge. There is also a light purple-brownish ovate blotch lying along this streak and limited above by the first pre-apical line, minutely strigulated longitudinally with darker purple-brown sprinkled with blackish specks. The hindwings are dark grey.[2]

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