Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Batrachedridae Scientific name Batrachedra mylephata | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Batrachedra Rank Species | |
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Batrachedra mylephata is a species of moth of the Batrachedridae family. It is found in Australia.
Original description
Male, 13-14 mm. Head white. Palpi white, basal, median, and subapical bands of second joint, and median ring of terminal blackish, scale-projection tuft-like, nearly as long as terminal joint. Antennae white, fuscous-ringed. Thorax white, sometimes fuscous-sprinkled. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish, spotted with dark fuscous. Forewings white, irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous; plical stigma linear, first and second discal rather elongate or dot-like, blackish; cilia above apex whitish with a dark fuscous median line, beneath whitish-fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-fuscous. Brisbane, Queensland; in September, two specimens.
References
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