Eupselia melanostrepta

Eupselia melanostrepta is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1880, where it has been recorded from Victoria and Tasmania.^[1]

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are brownish-ochreous, so densely irrorated with ochreous-whitish scales that the groundcolour is entirely obscured, except on a few faint transverse streaks. There are two more distinct transverse ochreous-brown streaks in the middle from the costa to the inner-margin, divergent above the middle, approximated on the inner-margin, where they enclose a small white spot. Before these the inner-margin is obscurely whitish nearly to the base and there is an oblique ochreous-brown streak from three-fourths of the costa to the hind-margin below the apex, and an indistinct ochreous-brown oblique streak immediately before the apex. The surface of the wing is strewn with ochreous-whitish hair-scales towards the lower part of the hind-margin and there are six round black spots very close togetlier on the hind-margin below the middle, as well as a violet-metallic line on the base of the cilia, broken into roundish spots, especially towards the apex. The rest of the cilia is smoky-fuscous. The hindwings and cilia are dark fuscous.^[2]

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