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Epiphthora phantasta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Epiphthora

Epiphthora phantasta is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.

The wingspan is 11-14 mm. The forewings are pale greyish-ochreous, irrorated with fuscous and with an outwardly oblique bar from the middle of the dorsum to the middle of the disc, an undefined spot on the tornus, and a cloudy dash beyond it towards the apex dark fuscous, sometimes nearly obsolete. The hindwings are very pale grey.

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Epiphthora phantasta Wikipedia