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Epiphractis amphitricha

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Oecophoridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Subfamily
  
Oecophorinae

Epiphractis amphitricha is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is known from the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and RĂ©union.

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are dull light brownish-crimson, with some scattered fuscous scales. There is an inwardly oblique purplish-fuscous streak from the dorsum beyond the middle, reaching three-fourths across the wing and a cloudy purplish-fuscous dot in the disc beyond two-thirds, and a short inwardly oblique streak from the tornus. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish, slightly crimson-tinged towards the termen and there is a long subcostal pencil of ochreous-whitish hairs lying along the upper margin of the cell beneath the forewings.

Subspecies

  • Epiphractis amphitricha amphitricha
  • Epiphractis amphitricha reunionensis (Viette, 1988)
  • References

    Epiphractis amphitricha Wikipedia