Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Batrachedridae Scientific name Batrachedra hypachroa | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Batrachedra Rank Species | |
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Batrachedra hypachroa is a species of moth of the Batrachedridae family. It is found in Australia.
Original description
Male, Female 11-12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish, median and subapical rings of second joint, and submedian and apical rings of terminal black, scale-projection slight. Antennae ochreous-whitish, ringed with dark fuscous Thorax pale ochreous, sprinkled with black. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs whitish, ringed with dark fuscous. Forewings pale ochreous, rather thickly sprinkled with black; plical and first and second discal stigmata elongate, black; cilia on costa whitish-ochreous sprinkled with black, rest ochreous-whitish. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish. Glen Innes (3000 feet), New South Wales; Mount Gambler, South Australia; in November and December, two specimens.