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Copidoris dimorpha

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Xyloryctidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Rank
  
Species

Genus
  
Copidoris Meyrick, 1907

Copidoris dimorpha is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family, and the only species in the genus Copidoris. It was described by Meyrick in 1907 and is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia.

The wingspan is 17–20 mm. The forewings are yellow-ochreous, along the costa, dorsum and termen, or sometimes wholly suffused with rather dark fuscous irrorated with white and usually a with clear white median longitudinal streak from the base to the apex, but sometimes this is suffusedly mixed with fuscous. The hindwings are grey-whitish, becoming light grey posteriorly.

References

Copidoris dimorpha Wikipedia