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Coleophora echyropis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Coleophoridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Coleophora

Coleophora echyropis is a moth of the Coleophoridae family. It is found in Kashmir.

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The antennae are white ringed fuscous and the palpi are white. The forewings are light greyish-ochreous. There is a broad white streak with two or three black specks running along the costa. The apical third of the wing is suffusedly mixed white, with a very few black specks between the veins. There is also a slender whitish-grey streak in the posterior half of the cell, with a few black scales and a greyish line with some black scales along the fold. The hindwings are grey.

References

Coleophora echyropis Wikipedia